What Are Glaciers

What are the two types of glaciers?

• Mountain and Ocean

• Alpine and Continental

• Till and Moraines

• Good and Bad

(Choose all that apply) Glaciers contain the following:

• Snow

• Ice

• Water

• Rocks

• Sediments

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(True or False) Alpine Glaciers are much larger than Continental Glaciers.

• True

• False

______ ______ form when glaciers meet the sea and begin to float.

• Ice shelves

• Ice calves

• Loess

• Till

________ at the bottom of the glacier helps it glide over the landscape.

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Strong winds can blow fine sand and silt hundreds of kilometers from the front of the glacier. What is this sediment called?

• Till

• Moraines

• Weathering

• Loess

Piles and ridges of sediment deposited at the edges and front of glaciers are called ___________.

• Till

• Moraines

• Loess

• Continental Glaciers