Water/Ice Erosion

Glaciers form...

• by build-up of ice over many years

• by pieces of ice breaking off of a Mountain

• by water freezing into a block of ice

• by it snowing really hard for days at a time

Where are Alpine glaciers found?

• Below The Snow-line

• Frozen To Mountains

• In Mountain Valleys

• Near Kettle Lakes

Particles of rock that are deposited by a glacier is

• (an) Iceberg

• glacial till

• (a) moraine

Which of the following is a Kettle Lake?

• 
• 
• 
• 

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Abrasion is...

• the destruction of plant life due to a glacier

• another term for plucking

• when the glacier melts into carved out pieces of land and creates a lake

• boulders and rocks scraping away at lower rock like a file

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is this glacial feature called?

• Hanging Valley

• Corrie

• Glacial Trough

• Waterfall

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Name this landform

• Corrie

• Backwall

• Arete

• Scree

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Name this feature

• Roche Moutonee

• Drumlin

• Crag and Tail

• Erratic

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What type of glacier covers huge areas of land?

• alpine

• continental

• till

• moraine

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

• medial moraine

• lateral moraine

• ground moraine

• terminal moraine

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2