Earth Science Chapter 14/15

Permeable layers of rock and sediment that store and carry groundwater are called ________.

About 75% of Earth's fresh water is frozen glaciers.

Calving occurs in Antarctica, where the snow line is at sea level.

Glaciers move downhill because of:

What is plastic flow?

_________ is a large mass of compacted snow and ice that moves under the force of gravity.

About 100% of drinking water in the U.S. comes from groundwater.

A large piece of ice falling from a glacier or iceberg is said to be:

________ is the rate at which water or other liquids pass through the pore spaces of a rock.

What are striations?

The till deposited at the edge of a glacier forms a pile called a:

What is Cirque?

Water that is stored in the ground is called groundwater.

A glacier till is:

__________ is the percent of a materials volume that is pore space.

The sediments that is deposited by glaciers is called:

In humid climates, the water table is at the surface such as lakes, swamps, and rivers.

What is glacial erosion?

What is a Arete?

Upper surface of the zone of saturation is called a ________ table.

_______ describes the income and spending of water for a region.

Karst topography forms in areas with bedrock made of _______.

Groundwater flows in as a spring.

Interaction between the water and the soil particles is called:

Part of the ground where all the pore spaces are filled is called the zone of _________.

When groundwater that contains dissolved minerals cools or evaporates, __________ are left behind.

What is a basal slip?

Lowest elevation at which the layer of permanent occurs in summer is called the ______ line.

Examples of aquifers are sands, gravel, and sandstones.

Today, continental glaciers cover most of:

Weather is a controlling factor in the evapotranspiration in a given region.

A continental glacier moves within valley walls.

A glacier that is less than 50,000 square kilometers in area is called ________.

Snow that is compressed and recrystalized into a rough, granular ice material is called ________.

Crevasses form:

A glacier moves very fast.

A valley glacier is a glacier that covers a large part of the continent.

An example of capillary action occurs when a paper towel is dipped in water and rises in the paper towel.

A glacier leaves a ______________ valley after it moves through.

A sandwich of permeable and impermeable rocks is called artesian formation.

What kind of glacier is this?

What is a horn?

Firn resembles the ice of a packed snowball.

A basin formed by an alpine glacier is called:

Glacier that loses most of its ice through melting ends at the _________.

The larger the size of particles, the more permeable it is. 

What is the term for the top of water found in the ground?

Sink holes, lost rivers, and underground drainage are characterized as __________.

________ and __________ are 2 main types of glaciers.

The following countries have ice caps except: