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6. the effects of wind and water action can be seen in..?
- smooth snow
- grooved and polished rocks
- esker shapes
- pingos
7. what can be created from frost heave?
- an irregular permafrost pattern
- stone strips and polygons
- squares and triangles
- an esker
8. What is the correct sequence for glacier ice formation?
- granular snow, snowflake, firn, glacier ice
- firn, snowflake, glacier ice, graular snow
- snowflake, granular snow, firn, glacier ice
- firn, snowflake, granular snow, glacier ice
9. what is a kettle hole?
- a hole in a glacier snout
- a small depression on an outwash plain
- a stream underneath a glacier
- a place to put a kettle
10. what shape is a glacial trough?
11. where are kame terraces often found?
- along side a glacial valley
- inside a glacier
- up a mountain
- in a stream
12. What is a roche moutonee?
- this consists of a larger mass of resistant rock or crag and a gently sloping tail of less resistant rock and/or sediment on one side.
- These are either pre-existing tributary valleys which were not glaciated or tributary glacial valleys.
- small areas of rock on the valley floor that have not been completely removed.
- area of land projecting from the river-valley sides which have been removed by the glacier.
13. what names are given to debris on the top, middle and bottom of a glacier?
- supraglacial, englacial, subglacial
- iceglacial, englaical, extraglacial
14. name a feature of erosion in a glacier
- varve
- sandur
- proglacial lake
- floodplain
15. what are the two ends called on a drumlin?
- carl and steve
- stoss and lee
- strass and leux
- lei and stross
16. what is a varve?
- a stream discharge increase
- sand and pebbles
- deposits with distinct layering
- a bad human name
17. what is nivation?
- solifluction
- rock under a patch of snow is disintegrated
- screes develop at the foot of slopes as a result
- a blockfield
18. What is a glacial environment?
- A type of sausage.
- One that exists in dry high-latitude areas not permanently covered by snow and ice.
- An area covered by ice sheets and glaciers.
- Such areas may contain small ice caps, mountain glaciers and tundra environments.
19. Names the inputs, outputs, storages and transfers in a glacial budget
- avalanches, water vapour, the glacier and the way it moves.
- snow, rain, rivers and the glacier
- movement, gradient, slush
20. Name an influence on the rate of movement
- sausages
- the ocean height
- permeability of the surface
- how high the mountain is