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Glaciers and Glaciation
Visualizing Geology

Match each term or statement with a location on the image.

1 .
Identify the indicated feature or process by selecting the correct response. (Alpine glacier diagram, Copyright © Prentice Hall, Inc.)
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1.1 the rate of melting is faster than the rate of new ice formation

1.2 as the glacier melts, it accumulates sediment into a long ridge, called a morraine

1.3 the rate of new ice formation is faster than the rate of melting

1.4 large volumes of glacial melt water may also deposit sediments

1.5 as the glacier moves, cracks form in the ice sheet

2 .
Identify the indicated alpine glacial features by selecting the correct response. (Glaciated mountain diagram, Copyright © Prentice Hall, Inc.)
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2.1 pater noster lakes

2.2 horn

2.3 cirque

2.4 tarn

2.5 glacial trough

2.6 arête

2.7 hanging valley

3 .
Identify the indicate glacial features by selecting the correct response. (Glacial features diagram, Copyright © Prentice Hall, Inc.)
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3.1 kame

3.2 outwash plain

3.3 kettle lake

3.4 drumlin

3.5 esker

3.6 end moraine

4 .
Correlate the indicated feature with its description by selecting the correct response. (Glacial features diagram, Copyright © Prentice Hall, Inc.)
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4.1 a mound or steep-sided hill made of ice-contact stratified drift

4.2 formed when a block of ice was trapped in drift and then melted

4.3 a ridge of till formed at the terminus of a glacier

4.4 a smooth, elongate hill composed largely of drift

4.5 a long ridge formed from meltwater river deposits

5 .
Identify the locations of the indicated features by selecting the correct response. (World elevation map, Courtesy of NOAA)
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5.1 the Matterhorn

5.2 Glacier National Park

5.3 glacial landforms created approximately 10,000 to 20,000 years ago

5.4 modern continental ice sheet

5.5 unglaciated region in North America

5.6 region of numerous fiords

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