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WorksheetsGACA U2b Glaciation / Features Resulting Quiz
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 1hrs 5mins
Earth's most RECENT glacial period is referred as ...
the Huronian.
the Quaternary.
the Aggaszian.
the Avalonian.
The Laurentide Ice Sheet extended as far south as
New York and Illinois states.
the 49th parallel.
the state of Georgia.
just south of Algonquin park.
The Milankovitch theory suggests that ice ages occur because...
asteroid strikes block out the sky with debris.
tall mountain chains fold up and change climate patterns.
carbon dioxide builds up in the atmosphere.
Earth's orbit around the sun wobbles.
Trenton's Bleasdell Boulder is an example of ...
an erratic deposit.
a chatter mark.
a tarn.
a stromatolite.
Scientists are able to tell the direction the glaciers travelled with evidence in the ...
arctic ice bubbles.
chatter marks.
rock striations.
Atlantic mud creatures.
Because the ice sheet weighed 60 quadrillion tons, after it melted, the continent...
began a slow process of isostatic rebound.
began to develop new mountain chains.
was briefly submerged under the ocean.
bobbed up and down on the mantle for a thousand years.
The tallest point of a mountain carved on all sides by glaciers is called the...
crevasse.
tarn.
horn.
saddle.
Scraping at the sidewalls as it moves along, glaciers sometimes gather and leave debris called...
lateral moraine.
terminal moraine.
medial moraine.
snouty rocks.
A chain of lakes in the mountains, left behind after the glacier retreats is called a...
basket of kettles.
paternoster.
tarn train.
fjord.
A V-shaped valley that gets carved by a glacier, where it meets ocean front, is called a...
U-shaped wash.
cirque.
arete.
fjord.
The Frankford area is a good example of the post-glacial feature known as...
a basket of eggs (drumlins).
an esker.
kame hills.
tillshaven.
As a glacier retreats it leaves behind fertile sediments in the feature known as...
the pleistocene.
the esker.
the outwash plain.
the tillage.
Much of southern Ontario's moraine that was deposited by recent glaciation was scraped from
diversion of the Mississippi river.
Rocky mountain erosion.
the Hudson basin.
the Great Lakes basin.
