quiz 23

outwash

...As the glacier melts, streams of water, often develop beneath it, washing sand, gravel, and other sedimentsfrom beneath the ice; these deposits are called ______

moraine

A heap or ridge of till left by a retreating glacier.

cirque

A valley glacier slowly scoops out a huge bowl-shaped depression called a _______

drumlin

Bunker Hill in Boston, Massachusetts, is an example of what type of glacial landform?

kettles

Large holes left from the melting of huge chunks of glacial ice lodged in till or outwash are ______

drumlins

When a glacier advances again in the winter, it may overrun its old moraines, smoothing the till into low hills called _____

kettle lake

When a kettle fills with water it forms a _____

glacier

a thick ice sheet that slowly moves under its own weight.

Nebraskan, the Kansan, The Illinoian, and the wisconsin.

evolutionists think there were 4 ice ages which they dub 1.___ 2.___ 3.____ 4._____

fact

glaciers and cold weather did not cover the entire earth during the ice age.

blowouts

in arid regions with sparse vegetation, where sand constantly moves and shifts, the wind often forms shallow hollows or depressions called ______ where material has been blown away.

striae

large, hard rocks pushed along by the glacier produce deep grooves and scratches called ______

valley and continental

name the 2 types of glacier.

valley glaciers

small highland glaciers, can be thought of as rivers of ice that flow slowly down valleys in mountainous regions.

ice caps

smaller ice sheets found in Iceland and Norway.

deflation

the most important effect of wind erosion, the removal of loose particles of sand and soil by wind.

desert pavement

the remaining barren, rocky surface, common in some windy desert regions, is called _______

continental glaciers

vast sheets of glacier ice that cover huge areas of relatively flat land.

ice age

what term refers to the period of widespread glaciation in the past?

horn

when 3 or more cirques cut into a mountain peak, they transform it into a sharp steeple- shaped point called a ______

till

when a glacier partially melts or retreats, during warmer weather, the huge quantities of broken rocks it carries are dumped unceremoniously on the ground. those rocks are called ________

retreating

when a glacier partially melts.