Question 1

Tributary glaciers follow the rule of streams and downcut to the level of the main trunk glacier to smoothly join in at the same elevation.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Name two of the five factors that control the differences in the power of glacial erosion?

Accepted Answer

glacier rate of movement, ice thickness ...

Question 3

A(n) ________ would likely be situated next to a large end moraine.

Accepted Answer

A)  cirque
B)  fjord
C)  horn
D)  outwash plainE) C) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 4

________ is a gently rolling sheet of till with an irregular surface deposited under the weight of a glacier.

Accepted Answer

A)  Terminal moraine
B)  Outwash blanket
C)  Kame sheet
D)  Ground moraineE) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 5

At what depth or thickness of ice does glacial ice make the transition from brittle fracture to plastic flow?

Accepted Answer

A)  1 metre
B)  5 metres
C)  10 metres
D)  50 metresE) B) and C)
F) B) and D)

Question 6

As eroding valley glaciers oversteepen their walls, rockfalls and slides along their margins add to the load of plucked and abraded debris to form ________.

Accepted Answer

The answer of As eroding valley glaciers oversteepen their walls,...

Question 7

Who co-discovered Canada's first diamond mine in the Northwest Territories?

Accepted Answer

A)  Charles Fipke and Stuart Blusson
B)  Louis Agassiz and Ignaz Venetz
C)  Paul Hoffman and Guy Narbonne
D)  Milutin Milankovitch and James CrollE) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 8

The down-valley end of the glacier is its terminus.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Drumlins are believed to represent deltas built into lakes by meltwater streams.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

What term denotes a glacial valley that was partly flooded as sea level rose?

Accepted Answer

The answer of What term denotes a glacial valley that...

Question 11

Surges in glacial movement are unusually fast rates of movement.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

The great, Southern Hemisphere glaciation left Jurassic tills on parts of South America, India, and South Africa.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Which one of the following could not have significantly affected climatic variations, and advances and retreats of ice sheets, during the Pleistocene Epoch?

Accepted Answer

A)  gradual movements of Earth's tectonic plates
B)  episodic variations in the Sun's energy output
C)  cyclic precession of Earth's orbit
D)  periodic wobbling of Earth's rotational axisE) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 14

What general term denotes the wastage of a glacier when combined mechanisms for loss of ice is greater than the input from its head?

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The answer of What general term denotes the wastage of...

Question 15

The bottom or downward tip of a crevasse marks the ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  boundary between parts of the glacier moving by basal sliding and crevassal slip
B)  boundary between the basal sliding and external flowage zones
C)  bottom of the basal sliding zone
D)  top of the internal deformation and flowage zone, and the base of the brittle zone of fractureE) A) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 16

Briefly discuss the indirect effects of glaciation.Indicate whether such changes would occur in conjunction with glaciation or at some time later?

Accepted Answer

Animal migration would occur during glac...

Question 17

Where is the world's second largest continental ice sheet?

Accepted Answer

A)  Iceland
B)  Greenland
C)  Antarctica
D)  Siberian RussiaE) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 18

Eccentricity, obliquity, and precession are three factors involved in the Milankovitch astronomic explanation of why the Pleistocene continental ice sheets alternately grew and shrank in size.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

Examine the words and/or phrases for each question below and determine the relationship among the majority of words/phrases.
-Choose the option that does not fit the pattern.

Accepted Answer

A)  drumlin
B)  kame
C)  kettle
D)  eskerE) C) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 20

How does the total land area change during ice ages?

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It gets la...

Exam 17: Glaciers and Glaciation

What term denotes a glacial valley that was partly flooded as sea level rose?

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A(n) ________ would likely be situated next to a large end moraine.

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How does the total land area change during ice ages?

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Which one of the following could not have significantly affected climatic variations, and advances and retreats of ice sheets, during the Pleistocene Epoch?

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Surges in glacial movement are unusually fast rates of movement.

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Tributary glaciers follow the rule of streams and downcut to the level of the main trunk glacier to smoothly join in at the same elevation.

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Drumlins are believed to represent deltas built into lakes by meltwater streams.

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As eroding valley glaciers oversteepen their walls, rockfalls and slides along their margins add to the load of plucked and abraded debris to form ________.

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Where is the world's second largest continental ice sheet?

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Who co-discovered Canada's first diamond mine in the Northwest Territories?

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Eccentricity, obliquity, and precession are three factors involved in the Milankovitch astronomic explanation of why the Pleistocene continental ice sheets alternately grew and shrank in size.

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Examine the words and/or phrases for each question below and determine the relationship among the majority of words/phrases. -Choose the option that does not fit the pattern.

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At what depth or thickness of ice does glacial ice make the transition from brittle fracture to plastic flow?

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Briefly discuss the indirect effects of glaciation.Indicate whether such changes would occur in conjunction with glaciation or at some time later?

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Name two of the five factors that control the differences in the power of glacial erosion?

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The great, Southern Hemisphere glaciation left Jurassic tills on parts of South America, India, and South Africa.

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The down-valley end of the glacier is its terminus.

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What general term denotes the wastage of a glacier when combined mechanisms for loss of ice is greater than the input from its head?

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The bottom or downward tip of a crevasse marks the ________.

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________ is a gently rolling sheet of till with an irregular surface deposited under the weight of a glacier.

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