Chapter 12 Review

What is a glacier formed from?

• Hardened sediment that has been prosseced by a sea turtle because it ate too many plastic straws

• Water with rocks and dirt frozen inside of it that is compacted by snow

• Ice

• Chicken Nuggets

Which is NOT a type of morain

• Terminale Morain

• Lateral Morain

• Medial Morain

• Eroided Morain

• Ground Morian

A glacier is a solid mass, but it moves as if it was a _____.

Drumlins are composed of what?

• Glacial Till

• Sediment

• Ice

• Large Amounts of Small Pebles

When the tubulence of water starts to slow down, in what order to the rocks and sediments start to settle?

• The large rocks start to settle first, laying on the top of the sediment and then the smaller rocks and sediments settle to the bottom of the river bed

• The small rocks sink down to the bottom of the river bed and then weathering from the river makes the larger rocks smaller and they follow to do the same

• They don't

_______ is when the layers of rocks flake and ridges start to form

Acid rain is an example of...

• Menchanical Erosion

• Chemical Erosion

• Acidic water falling from the sky

• Physical Erosion

Frost Wedging is...

• When water ceeps into the cracks in a rock, freezes, expands, and then cracks the rock

• Water is absorbed by a rock and then weathering from the water makes the rock chip

• Frost sheets freeze over top of rocks and then when the frost sheets melt, small amounts of rock chip away

• When you get a snow cone and shove a door stop into the side of it, making a ice, or frost, wedge

Deflation is...

• the process of forming desert pavement by wind erosion of loose sediments from flat, dry terrain

• when wind driven sediments rub against rocks and break them away slowly

• large piles of sand piled up by wind

• a thick, fine-grain strata

What is the name of the process in which a glaier chips away at bedrock?

• Abrasion

• Delfation

• Till

• Plucking