Glaciers

A _____ is a mass of snow and ice that moves slowly over the land.

• moraine

• glacier

• till

• u-shaped valley

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_____ is the removal of large chunks of rock picked up by the glacier

• Plucking

• Abrasion

• Weathering

• Erosion

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_____ is the material that is deposited by the melting glacier.

• kettles

• cirque

• horn

• till

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_____ are piles of till deposited at the bottom of glaciers.

• cirque

• end moraine

• lateral moraine

• erratics

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What landform is shown in the image?

• Arete

• Cirque

• Erratic

• Till

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_____ are depressions that were formed when pieces of glacier ice melted.

• Erratic

• Kettles

• Cirque

• Aretes

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What is the arrow pointing to in the image?

• Cirque

• Erratic

• Esker

• Kettle

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What landform is shown in the image?

• Horn

• Cirque

• Erratic

• Kettle

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A sharp, pyramid shaped peak formed by glacial erosion

• Horn

• Arete

• Cirque

• Erratic

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This is an example of a ____________.

• V-shaped river valley

• continental glacier

• U-shaped valley

• cirque

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