Glacial Movement, Transportation and Deposition Quiz

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Glacial Movement, Transportation and Deposition Quiz

What causes glaciers to move?

Friction between the ice and bedrock.

The weight of ice and friction with the bedrock.

The weight of the ice and gravity.

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What is basal slip?

The weight of ice causing a glacier to move.

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.

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What is internal deformation?

The weight of ice causing a glacier to move.

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.

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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 retreat

Glacial advance

Glacial approach

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What is the name of material transported by a glacier?

Bedrock

Moroon

Moraine

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What is the furthest advance of a glacier marked by?

Lateral moraine

Medial moraine

Terminal moraine

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

Bulldozing

Advancing slip

Rotational slip

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

Till

Moraine

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.

True

False

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