Geography Chapter 17
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| show | A large mass of ice that forms on land and moves slowly downhill under its own weight
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| show | A temporary line marking the elevation where winter snowfall persists throughout the summer
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| show | A long, narrow glacier that forms high in a mountain valley
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| show | Continuous masses of ice; larger than alpine glaciers
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| Cirque | show 🗑
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| Ice sheet | show 🗑
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| Glacial Surge | show 🗑
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| show | As the glacier flows downhills, boulders frozen to its bottom move with it and scrape the bedrock, leaving gouges and scratches
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| Plucking | show 🗑
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| show | An asymmetrical hill of exposed bedrock with a gently sloping side. Polished smooth by a glacier
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| show | Formed by a flowing river
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| Arete | show 🗑
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| show | The lowest point between two peaks or horns
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| show | A pyramid-shaped mountain peak. Created by multiple glaciers eroding the same mountain
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| show | A valley shaped like a U formed as a glacier erodes the land
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| Striations | show 🗑
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| show | Small mountain lakes found in cirques
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| show | A U shaped valley cut by a glacier and then filled in by the rising sea level
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| Glacial Drift | show 🗑
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| Moraine | show 🗑
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| Lateral Moraine | show 🗑
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| Medial Moraine | show 🗑
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| Terminal Moraine | show 🗑
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| Till Plain | show 🗑
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| Drumlin | show 🗑
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| show | An area of glacial stream deposits beyond a glacier's moraines
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| show | Narrow ridges made of sand and gravel. Formed by glacial meltwater flowing within and under glaciers
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| show | Small hill, knoll or mound of sorted sand and gravel left on a surface as a glacier retreats
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| show | A small depression formed by a chunk of ice in glacial till. The ice melts, and either a depression is left, or the depression fills with water and becomes a lake
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Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
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