Exam 6: Glaciers, Deserts, and Winds

Word Analysis. Examine the words and/or phrases for each question below and determine the relationship among the majority of words/phrases. Choose the option which does not fit the pattern.

Running water is an important erosional agent in many arid lands despite infrequent rainfalls.

Word Analysis. Examine the words and/or phrases for each question below and determine the relationship among the majority of words/phrases. Choose the option which does not fit the pattern.

Inselbergs are ________.

On the blanks provided below, fill in the name of the labeled features that formed as a product of alpine glaciation.

A playa is an intermittent lake on the floor of a desert valley.

The Pleistocene epoch is the only glacial period for which evidence exists.

________ are erosional features produced by valley/alpine glaciers.

Label the zone of accumulation and the zone of wastage on the diagram below.

When a glacier is retreating, the upstream ice is still moving forward toward the downstream terminus of the glacier.

Fiords are glacier-cut valleys that flooded as sea level rose in post-glacial times.

Matching. Match the feature with the appropriate material. -esker

Word Analysis. Examine the words and/or phrases for each question below and determine the relationship among the majority of words/phrases. Choose the option which does not fit the pattern.

Arid and semiarid climates cover nearly one-third of Earth's land surface.

The bottom or downward tip of a crevasse marks the ________.

A fiord is a ________.

Word Analysis. Examine the words and/or phrases for each question below and determine the relationship among the majority of words/phrases. Choose the option which does not fit the pattern.

Unusually rapid, forward movements of glaciers are called ________.

Label the alluvial fans and playa lakes on the diagram below.

Drumlins are ________.