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Worksheets6 Mighty Glaciers
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 4hrs 45mins
Glaciers are made of:
Ice obviously!
Ice and rocks.
Cliffs and water of the ocean.
Frozen oceans only.
When glaciers melt they leave behind:
lakes
rivers
hills of soil and boulders
all the options are correct
These are the types of glaciers:
continental and valley
oceanic and river
frozen and melted
Arctic and Antartarctic
Valley glaciers form in:
lakes
rivers
high mountains and peaks
narrow valleys
Glaciers form when:
Layers of snow compress.
We stop global warming.
Lakes freeze.
A meteor crashed and killed the dinosaurs.
Firn is:
when snowflakes compress into crystals.
firm ice.
solid ice.
snowflakes on the top of glaciers.
Glaciers move when they become heavy.
True
False
The text doesn't say
A crevasse is
firn together
snowflakes compressed
the movement of a glacier
all the answers are wrong
Continental glaciers form
In the middle of a continent mainly Antarctica and the North Pole
where valley glaciers are
Downhill
In the coasts only
Moraines are
giant bulldozers
glacier rivers
rocks
all the answers are wrong
Fjords are
valleys created after glaciers melt
snow lines
a river made by a glacier
firn and moraines
Icebergs are
big chunks of a glacier that fell into the sea
big ice floes
islands int he Antarctic Ocean
all the answers are wrong
How do glaciers recede?
when the weather gets warmer or less snow falls
when the moraines form
when boulders form
when the weather makes them reach the coast
What's till?
soil left behind when a glacier recedes
altitude above which it is cold enough for snow not to melt
pebble-sized ice crystals of compressed snow
piles of soil and rocks scraped up by a glacier
Why do scientists think more and more glaciers are receding?
Because of Global Warming.
No one knows.
Because they are rivers of ice.
Because they all disappear eventually.
