Glacier Depositional Features

This force causes the movement of glaciers

• pressure
• ice age
• gravity
• firn

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Kettle

• small depression formed by a chunk of ice when it melts

• ridges formed at the edge of a glacier

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

unsorted rock material deposited directly by ice as it melts

• glacial drift

• stratified drift

• till

• glacier

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

which type of moraine forms along each side of a glacier?

• medial moraine

• lateral moraine

• ground moraine

• terminal moraine

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What glacial features are indicated by the labels C and D on the figure?

• moraines
• outwash plains
• kettle lakes
• ice sheets

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Forms when a flowing glacier scoops out an area between two mountains. 

• U-Shaped Valley
• Fjord
• Kettle
• Moraine

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Glaciers often form V shaped valleys

• true
• false

A _____ is a tear-drop-shaped hill created by ice flow over and around till deposit.

• drumlin
• esker
• moraine
• erratic

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

A _____ is a meandering narrow ridge formed when water, flowing in a tunnel underneath a melting glacier, deposited sediment

• erratic
• moraine
• esker
• fjords

An _________ is a large rock left by a glacier.

• erratic

• till

• morraine

• esker