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Glacier Dynamics and Features

Glacier Dynamics and Features

Assessment

Interactive Video

Science, Geography, Other

6th - 7th Grade

Practice Problem

Hard

Created by

Patricia Brown

FREE Resource

The video tutorial explains the movement of glaciers, focusing on how they advance and retreat, affecting the landscape. It covers the deposition of sediments, formation of erratics, and creation of moraines. The process of glacier melting and its impact on bedrock, including the formation of outwash plains, is also discussed. The tutorial concludes with observations on glacier behavior and its geological effects.

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10 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the term for unsorted material left by a glacier?

Outwash

Erratic

Moraines

Till

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is an erratic in the context of glaciers?

A type of sediment

A large boulder

A glacier movement

A type of moraine

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is a recessional moraine?

A glacier advance feature

A type of erratic

A glacier retreat feature

A type of sediment

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What happens to a glacier when the temperature increases?

It deposits till

It retreats

It forms a moraine

It advances

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is an outwash plain?

A type of moraine

A glacier advance feature

A type of erratic

A flat area formed by glacier meltwater

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What effect do glaciers have on bedrock?

They deposit till

They create striations

They form erratics

They cause melting

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What are striations?

Glacier movements

Lines on bedrock

Moraine formations

Types of sediments

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