WorksheetsGlacial Features
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The diagram represents a stream valley. Which diagram below best shows how this valley might be modified after a glacier has moved through it?
a)
b)
c)
d)
2.
Glaciers form when _____.
a)
less snow falls than melts
b)
more snow falls than melts
c)
less rain falls than freezes
d)
more rain falls than freezes
3.
Icebergs form when a glacier flows into a body of water and cracks apart. This process is known as _____.
a)
drifting
b)
cracking
c)
calving
d)
crevassing
4.
Large rocks or boulders that are transported by glaciers are called...
a)
Erratics
b)
Striations
c)
Morraine
d)
Abrasion
5.
What is this image representing?
a)
Abrasion
b)
Plucking
c)
Freeze Thaw
d)
Deposition
6.
A _____ is a mass of ice that moves downhill due to its weight.
a)
glacier
b)
erratic
c)
fjiord
d)
moraine
7.
_____ is one of the two types of glaciers.
a)
Valley
b)
Mountain
c)
Plain
d)
Ocean
8.
_____ is the unsorted material that is deposited directly by ice.
a)
Outwash
b)
Till
c)
Erratic
d)
Esker
9.
_____ are are lines deposited at bottom or along sides of glaciers.
a)
Eskers
b)
Till
c)
Erratics
d)
Moraines
10.
A _____ is a meandering narrow ridge formed when water, flowing in a tunnel underneath a melting glacier, deposited sediment
a)
erratic
b)
moraine
c)
esker
d)
fjords
11.
A _____ is a tear-drop-shaped hill created by ice flow over and around till deposit.
a)
drumlin
b)
esker
c)
moraine
d)
erratic
12.
A _____ are depressions formed as stranded ice blocks melt in outwash.
a)
erratics
b)
eskers
c)
kettles
d)
drumlin
13.
What are jagged ridges that form on mountains called?
a)
U0shaped valleys
b)
cirques
c)
aretes
d)
horns
14.
A sharp, pyramid shaped peak formed by glacial erosion
a)
Horn
b)
Arete
c)
Cirque
d)
Erratic
15.
Identify the landform in the picture created by a glacier.
a)
arete
b)
cirque
c)
kettle lake
d)
moraine
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