Exam 19: Glacial Modification of Terrain

Which of the following is NOT a major, recognized glacial stage of the Pleistocene Epoch?

A nunatak is a rocky pinnacle poking through a(n) ________.

Cirques are located at elevations high above sea level.

The presence of multiple medial moraines indicates ________.

If you were to dig into a drumlin, you would find ________.

________ is composed of stratified (layered) drift.

The textbook concludes that ________.

A deglaciated cirque often contains a basin in which a(n) ________ can be found.

If all the ice in Antarctica were to melt, sea level would ________.

Why is Lake Missoula such a notable water body associated with glaciation?

Antarctica's ice sheet encompasses about ________ percent of the world's total land ice.

Glacial processes are still the most important erosional forces at work in the world today.

Which of the following is NOT one of the pluvial developments of the Pleistocene Epoch?

After Alaska, ________ is the state with the greatest number of glaciers and greatest amount of surface area covered by glaciers.

In Alaska, most of the contemporary glaciers are found mainly in the ________ portion of the state.

In some places, the crust of the Earth is rising as much as ________ per decade because of crustal adjustment after the Pleistocene ice melted.

Snow which is starting the transition to glacial ice has a density twice that of liquid water.

During the Pleistocene, the ________ ice was the most extensive continental ice sheet in the world.

You dig into material in a region you know has been glaciated. Explain how you could tell you are digging into glacial till rather than alluvium.

The lower part of a glacier where there is a net annual loss of ice from melting and sublimation is the zone of ________.