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Glaciers

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The removal of large chunks of rock debris.

a)

weathering

b)

abrasion

c)

plucking

d)

weathering

2.

What type of glacier is this?

a)

Valley

b)

Continental

3.

What type of glacier is this?

a)

Valley

b)

Continental

4.

What do you call parallel scratch marks on bedrock?

a)

till

b)

striations

c)

plucking

d)

abrasion

5.

The word that describes large boulders that are transported and deposited by glaciers are called...

a)

till

b)

erratics

c)

moraines

d)

fjords

6.

Most glaciers are located in...

a)

North America

b)

Greenland

c)

Antartica

d)

Norway

7.

When an iceberg flows into water and cracks apart, it is known as

a)

crevassing

b)

breaking

c)

drifting

d)

calving

8.

Kettle lakes are formed when

a)

there is a whole in a glacier

b)

ice piles up

c)

when partially buried ice chunks melt

d)

icebergs break off and move on land

9.

a mass of rocks and sediment carried down and deposited by a glacier, typically as ridges at its edges or extremity.

a)

moraine

b)

washout

c)

drumlin

d)

outwash sheets

10.

unsorted rock deposited by a glacier is called...

a)

glacier

b)

stratified drift

c)

glacial drift

d)

till

11.

Glaciers form what kind of valleys?

a)

V shaped

b)

C shaped

c)

U shaped

d)

O shaped