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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?

  • C
  • P
  • U
  • V

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