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Shaping Earth quiz
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#Science, # Grade 7
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Glaciers can move how many feet a day?
90
2
10
50
2
Continental glaciers were all over the place during what age?
The age of Alexander
Medieval times
The ice age
The bronze age
3
Glaciers form when _____ (Fill in the blank)
It rains and it freezes
Snow compacts together
All of the above
Mountains collapse and freeze
4
Glaciers form a _____ when the glaciers pulls sediment up and deposits it somewhere else.
Moraine
Till
Lagoon
5
Fun question: The titanic sunk by a ____
Elmo
Engine failing
An iceberg
A glacier
6
In Alaska there are 616 officially named glaciers, but how many altogether recorded glaciers?
600
100,000
5,000
1 million
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What landforms are created when glaciers create a destructing action?
Trenches
Valleys
Mountains
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If every glacier had melted, the sea level would rise by how many feet?
500
230
260
57
9
How do glaciers build landscapes?
The built up erosion forms a moraine
All of the above
The ice melts to create lakes
It leaves a till
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Glaciers are ____ ? (Fill in the blank)
Any large mass of ice that slowly moves over land
Animals that live in the cold
Mountains
Landfroms
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What will happen if glaciers melt?
Continents will drift away
Animals will die
All of the above
The sea level will rise
12
What is a continental glacier?
A glacier that is covering the continent
A glacier that is shaped like a continent
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Fun question: What percent of the world's freshwater comes from glaciers?
50%
20%
90%
75%
