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True-False Quiz


This activity contains 10 questions.

Question 1
1 About 7 percent of all contemporary erosion is accomplished by glaciers.
   
 
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Question 2
2 The dominant environmental characteristic of the Pleistocene was the refrigeration of high-latitude and high-altitude areas.
   
 
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Question 3
3 About 10 percent of Earth's land surface is covered with ice today.
   
 
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Question 4
4 In the conterminous United States, most glaciers are in the northeast.
   
 
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Question 5
5 About 30 percent of the total area of Alaska is glacial ice.
   
 
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Question 6
6 Ice sheets are vast blankets of ice that completely cover the underlying terrain to depths of hundreds or thousands of feet.
   
 
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Question 7
7 The upper portion of a glacier is called the accumulation zone.
   
 
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Question 8
8 The general term for all material moved by glaciers is drift.
   
 
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Question 9
9 Continental ice sheets are the most extensive features ever to appear on the face of the planet.
   
 
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Question 10
10 Eskers are composed largely of glaciofluvial gravel.
   
 
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