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Chapter 15: Questions and Answers
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CHAPTER 15: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1. What phrase best describes how glacial ice becomes the way it is?
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A. Freezing of rain in layers B. Re-freezing of melted snow C. Compaction of perennial snow D. Solar radiation effects on snowpack
2. Ice sheet glaciers can get thick. How thick is the current thickest ice sheet glacier on earth?
A. 500 feet B. 2.5 miles C. 10 miles D. We don't have these on earth anymore
3. What is the major byproduct of calving of glaciers?
A. An increase in icebergs B. An increase in glacial thickness C. An increase in the zone of ablation D. Increased glacial sheet size
4. When a glacier lobe erodes into a mountain to form a bowl-shaped depression that later fills with water, what is this lake area called?
A. Col B. Arete C. Tarn D. Cirque
5. Glacial moraines are named by where they are with respect to the glacier.
Which type of moraine is made when two glaciers merge?
A. Medial moraine B. Recessional moraine C. Lateral moraine D. Terminal moraine
6. When an ice block from a glacier gets left behind and melts to form its own collection of tills, what is this called?
A. Kame B. Kettle C. Erratic D. Esker
7. What is a long sinewy band of sediment left behind when streams flowed beneath the glacier called?
A. Kame B. Kettle C. Erratic D. Esker
8. What is a large boulder left behind after a glacier has retreated called?
E. Kame F. Tillite G. Erratic H. Drumlin
9. What type of lake was Lake Agassiz in Manitoba?
A. Finger lake B. Proglacial lake C. Paternoster lake D. Kettle lake
10. Which lake is the remnant of Lake Bonneville?
A. Great Salt Lake B. Lake Superior C. Lake Ontario D. Lake Erie
