18: glaciers and glaciation

Question 1

a thick mass of ice originating on land from the compaction and recrystallization of snow

Answer 1

glaciers

Question 2

large masses of ice

Answer 2

ice sheets

Question 3

glaciers that flow down mountain valleys

Answer 3

valley glaciers

Question 4

what forms when glaciers grow into the ocean and spread out to form a wide layer of floating ice

Answer 4

ice shelves

Question 5

like smaller ice sheets

Answer 5

ice caps

Question 6

both ice caps and ice sheets may be drained by

Answer 6

outlet glaciers

Question 7

any sediment of glacial origin is called

Answer 7

glacial drift

Question 8

two types of glacial drift are

Answer 8

till and stratified drift

Question 9

which of the glacial drifts is sorted and deposited by meltwater from a glacier?

Answer 9

stratified drift

Question 10

which of the glacial drifts isn’t sorted, just deposited right there by the ice

Answer 10

tills

Question 11

an ice sheet that acts as a dam by trapping meltwater or blocking the flow of rivers to create

Answer 11

proglacial lakes

Question 12

what is lithified till called

Answer 12

tillite