4 - Surface Geography and Earth Systems REVIEW

The removal of ice at the toe of a glacier by melting, sublimation, and/or calving

• Erratic

• Delta

• Glacial advance

• Ablation

A sediment pile composed of till deposited by a glacier

• Erratic

• Ablation

• Moraine

• Drumlin

A boulder or cobble that was picked up by a glacier and deposited hundreds of kilometers away from the outcrop from which it detached

• Bedrock

• Drumlin

• Clast

• Erratic

Grooves or scratches cut into bedrock when clasts embedded in the moving glacier act like the teeth of a giant rasp

• Clast

• Erosion

• Glacial Striation

• Erratic

The process by which sediment settles out of a transporting medium

• Bedrock

• Drumlin

• Deposition

• Erosion

An example of Unidirectional change is...

• Carbon Cycle

• Water Cycle

• Crust Formation

• Ocean Tides

The Precambrian Shield is mostly _______________________ and igneous rocks.

• Sedimentary

• Metamorphic

• Lake Deposits

• Sand

The Phanerozoic Basin was created from....?

• Mountain Building

• Heat & Pressure

• Shallow Interior Sea

• Collision of Plates

When was SK's potash deposited? Approximately....

• 300 years ago

• 3000 years ago

• 300 million years ago

• 300 billion years ago

True or False. Mineral deposits are associated with specific rock types and time periods.

• True

• False