Section #: 8.3 Glaciers

Practice Test
      
  1.What causes the snow of a glacier to become ice?  
  a.   changing humidities  
  b.   pressure from overlying snow  
  c.   colder temperatures  
  d.   heat from the Sun  
  Hint    
      
  2.What kind of valley will be left by the structure in the figure?



 
  a.   v-shaped  
  b.   u-shaped  
  c.   w-shaped  
  d.   i-shaped  
  Hint    
      
  3.Ridges consisting of till deposited by glaciers are called __________.  
  a.   aretes  
  b.   cirques  
  c.   eskers  
  d.   moraines  
  Hint    
      
  4.A __________ is a large, moving mass of ice.  
  a.   cirque  
  b.   dune  
  c.   glacier  
  d.   drumlin  
  Hint    
      
  5.Glaciers move over older moraines and form the material into elongated landforms called __________.  
  a.   eskers  
  b.   moraines  
  c.   drumlins  
  d.   outwash plains  
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  6.What are scratches left in rock by a glacier called?  
  a.   drumlins  
  b.   marks  
  c.   cirques  
  d.   striations  
  Hint    
      
  7.Which structure is NOT featured in the figure?  
  a.   cirque  
  b.   u-shaped valley  
  c.   horn  
  d.   plateau  
  Hint    

 
   
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