Section #: 8.3 Glaciers

Practice Test
      
  1.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    
      
  2.Glaciers move over older moraines and form the material into elongated landforms called __________.  
  a.   eskers  
  b.   moraines  
  c.   drumlins  
  d.   outwash plains  
  Hint    
      
  3.What are scratches left in rock by a glacier called?  
  a.   drumlins  
  b.   marks  
  c.   cirques  
  d.   striations  
  Hint    
      
  4.A __________ is a large, moving mass of ice.  
  a.   cirque  
  b.   dune  
  c.   glacier  
  d.   drumlin  
  Hint    
      
  5.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  
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  6.Ridges consisting of till deposited by glaciers are called __________.  
  a.   aretes  
  b.   cirques  
  c.   eskers  
  d.   moraines  
  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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