Glacial Movement, Transportation and Deposition Quiz

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Glacial Movement, Transportation and Deposition Quiz

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What causes glaciers to move?

The weight of the ice and gravity.

The weight of ice and friction with the bedrock.

Friction between the ice and bedrock.

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What is basal slip?

The slipping and deformation of individual ice crystals within the glacier causing it to move.

When meltwater beneath a glacier enables it to slide forward a few metres a year.

The weight of ice causing a glacier to move.

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What is internal deformation?

When meltwater beneath a glacier enables it to slide forward a few metres a year.

The weight of ice causing a glacier to move.

The slipping and deformation of individual ice crystals within the glacier causing it to move.

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What occurs when the amount of additional and ice accumulation in a year exceeds the amount of melting (ablation)?

Glacial retreat

Glacial advance

Glacial approach

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What happens when the amount of ablation exceeds accumulation?

Glacial approach

Glacial retreat

Glacial advance

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What is the name of material transported by a glacier?

Moroon

Bedrock

Moraine

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What is the furthest advance of a glacier marked by?

Terminal moraine

Medial moraine

Lateral moraine

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What is the name of the process that causes smaller glaciers in mountainside depressions to move?

Rotational slip

Bulldozing

Advancing slip

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What is the name of sediment deposited by meltwater towards the snout of a glacier?

Moraine

Till

Glacial trough

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True or false? Till is well sorted.

True

False

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Till is characterised by having a range of sizes and is poorly sorted.

Identify the feature formed when meltwater pouring from the snout of a glacier transports then deposits material.

Terminal moraine

Outwash plain

Roche moutonnée

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True or false? Sediment found on outwash plains is better sorted and more rounded.

False

True

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