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Vocab Target Study Guide Target 2

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is Striations?

a)

My middle name

b)

A deep open crack, especially one in a glacier.

c)

A series of ridges, furrows or linear marks

d)

I have no idea

2.

What causes an Arete to form?

a)

It is typically formed when two glaciers erode parallel U-shaped valleys.

b)

Rain

c)

I could care less

d)

When rocks are grow onto of each other and create a tall thin wall

3.

What feature do you see a lot with hanging valleys?

a)

Waterfalls

b)

Snow

c)

Big Boulders

d)

Houses

4.

What am I describing? A bowl-shaped depression on the side of or near mountains

a)

Crevasse

b)

Kettle

c)

Kame

d)

Cirque

5.

A ____ results when glaciers erode three or more arêtes, usually forming a sharp-edged peak.

a)

Horn

b)

Tarn

c)

Esker

d)

Drumlin

6.

What is a Tarn?

a)

Tarns are rivers that are made to help stop flooding

b)

Tarns are a type of bird

c)

Tarns are lakes that form in glacially-carved cirques. They are often dammed by moraines.

d)

How would I know?

7.

What is pictured above?

a)

O-Shaped Valley

b)

C-Shaped Valley

c)

V-Shaped Valley

d)

U-Shaped Valley

8.
When a glacier retreats and large, partially buried, ice chunks are left behind to melt, these are formed:
a)
Moraine
b)
Prairie pothole
c)
Kettle Lake
d)
Fjord
9.

Unsorted rock material deposited directly by a glacier.

a)

Glacial drift

b)

Stratified drift

c)

Till

d)

Glacier

10.

Glaciers often form V shaped valleys

a)

True

b)

False