Glaciers

A gigantic mass of moving ice

• glacial drift

• stratified drift

• till

• glacier

What type of glacier covers huge areas of land?

• alpine

• continental

• till

• moraine

unsorted rock material (large and small rocks) deposited directly by a glacier as it melts

• glacial drift

• stratified drift

• till

• glacier

What are jagged ridges that form on mountains called?

• U0shaped valleys

• cirques

• aretes

• horns

Glaciers form when _____.

• less snow falls than melts 
• more snow falls than melts 
• less rain falls than freezes 
• more rain falls than freezes 

_____ are parallel scratch marks on bedrock

• Plucking
• Abrasion
• Straitions
• Till

A _____ is a glacially carved valley flooded by the sea. This is mentioned in the movie frozen!

• volcano

• moraine

• out-wash bason

• fjiord

_____ are are lines deposited at bottom or along sides of glaciers.

• Eskers
• Till
• Erratics
• Moraines

_____ are enormous boulders transported and deposited by glaciers, often far from their source region.

• Till
• Erratics
• Moraines
• Fjords

A _____ are depressions formed as stranded ice blocks melt in till.

• erratics

• eskers

• kettles

• drumlin