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6 Mighty Glaciers

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 4hrs 45mins

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Class
Date
1.

Glaciers are made of:

a)

Ice obviously!

b)

Ice and rocks.

c)

Cliffs and water of the ocean.

d)

Frozen oceans only.

2.

When glaciers melt they leave behind:

a)

lakes

b)

rivers

c)

hills of soil and boulders

d)

all the options are correct

3.

These are the types of glaciers:

a)

continental and valley

b)

oceanic and river

c)

frozen and melted

d)

Arctic and Antartarctic

4.

Valley glaciers form in:

a)

lakes

b)

rivers

c)

high mountains and peaks

d)

narrow valleys

5.

Glaciers form when:

a)

Layers of snow compress.

b)

We stop global warming.

c)

Lakes freeze.

d)

A meteor crashed and killed the dinosaurs.

6.

Firn is:

a)

when snowflakes compress into crystals.

b)

firm ice.

c)

solid ice.

d)

snowflakes on the top of glaciers.

7.

Glaciers move when they become heavy.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

The text doesn't say

8.

A crevasse is

a)

firn together

b)

snowflakes compressed

c)

the movement of a glacier

d)

all the answers are wrong

9.

Continental glaciers form

a)

In the middle of a continent mainly Antarctica and the North Pole

b)

where valley glaciers are

c)

Downhill

d)

In the coasts only

10.

Moraines are

a)

giant bulldozers

b)

glacier rivers

c)

rocks

d)

all the answers are wrong

11.

Fjords are

a)

valleys created after glaciers melt

b)

snow lines

c)

a river made by a glacier

d)

firn and moraines

12.

Icebergs are

a)

big chunks of a glacier that fell into the sea

b)

big ice floes

c)

islands int he Antarctic Ocean

d)

all the answers are wrong

13.

How do glaciers recede?

a)

when the weather gets warmer or less snow falls

b)

when the moraines form

c)

when boulders form

d)

when the weather makes them reach the coast

14.

What's till?

a)

soil left behind when a glacier recedes

b)

altitude above which it is cold enough for snow not to melt

c)

pebble-sized ice crystals of compressed snow

d)

piles of soil and rocks scraped up by a glacier

15.

Why do scientists think more and more glaciers are receding?

a)

Because of Global Warming.

b)

No one knows.

c)

Because they are rivers of ice.

d)

Because they all disappear eventually.