Exam 18: Glaciers: Cold-Climate Sculptors of Continents

What is Canada's average depth of erosion?

Which type of glacier does the most erosional work?

What were the desert valleys of the Great Basin like 17,000 years ago? What does the distribution of the ice-age lakes in the Great Basin reveal about the climate 20,000 years ago? How do we reconstruct ancient climate in this region? Where was the southerly track of northern winter storms during this time period?

Most glacial ice originates as

Which of the following is not a difference between sea ice and ice shelves?

A glacially formed lake within a cirque is called a

Ice moves ________ in the zone of accumulation and ________ in the zone of wastage.

Name three features of North America during the Last Ice Age.

The snowline is ________ at high latitudes where year-round temperatures are ________.

Where are glaciers fastest?

Which cause and effect statement concerning the last ice age is incorrect?

Which is not a characteristic of glacial deposits?

The elevation above which snow persists throughout the year is called the

What is the definition of a glacier?

From which type of rock were Lake Michigan and Lake Huron carved?

How do glacial lakes form?

Tidewater glaciers

Which type of glacier most resembles a river?

The wobble in Earth's rotational axis undergoes a periodic variation every

A very steep pointy mountain peak sculpted between three or more cirques is called a(n)