Unit 11 Review

What marks the farthest location that a glacier reached? Select the BEST answer

The top of an alpine glacier valley has a _______________.

What climate has the thickest topsoil?

Hanging valleys have a _____________ where the smaller valley joins the larger valley.

Rocks (sometimes large) that are deposited by glaciers and don't match the local bedrock.

Rivers and Glaciers _________________.

Weathering ___________ rocks.

These are formed when a piece of ice is deposited by a glacier and till surrounds the ice.

Alpine glaciers are _________ and ___________.

Glacial till is ______________ and deposited ________________ .

What forms where a river joins another body of water and deposits sediment?

Grooves carved into the bedrock by rocks imbedded in the bottom of a glacier are called __________.

What climate has the most variety of weathering?

What is the mountain peak formed by three or more alpine glaciers eroding away nearby rock?

Flat area of land that surrounds a river is a ___________.

Deposition ___________ rocks

Glacial outwash is ______________ and deposited ________________ .

All glaciers are similar in size, shape, and thickness.

What processes helps form soil by adding mass from bedrock to the soil?

Different areas of glaciers flow at different rates due to _______________.

Continental glaciers are _________ and ___________.

What type of stream load makes water look silty/murky?

Watershed are separated form each other by areas of __________________.

Where does oxidation happen?

Weathering that changes the physical characteristics of a rock is _______________ weathering.

Breaking a rock into two piece ___________ surface area.

Alpine glaciers are found _____________________.

Till and outwash are deposited by _____________.

Glaciers covered Michigan during the last ice age. What do the shapes moraines left behind look like?

What is formed when a meander is separated from the main flow of the river?

Erosion ___________ rocks

What type of stream load causes a lot of erosion as it travels downstream?

Underground caves are typically formed naturally by _____________.