glacer.p2.

Question 1

what is a Drumilns?

Answer 1

a drumins are oval shaped hils made of boulder clay

Question 2

how are drumlins formed

Answer 2

drumlins are formed when glacier deposites mounds of boulday clay

Question 3

what is an erratics?

Answer 3

an erratics are large boulders that were transported from there orignal location by glacier and then deposited an area when the rock type is diffent

Question 4

what is a moraines

Answer 4

a moraine is the name giving to the material transported and later deposited on the valley floor by a glacier

Question 5

how are moraines formed?

Answer 5

moraines are formed when a glacier travells through a valley. it drops of some of the material that is eroded from the upper slopes at either side of the glacier

Question 6

what is an esker?

Answer 6

an esker is a long, narrrow ride of sand and gravel that winds its way along a lowland landscape

Question 7

how are eskers formed?

Answer 7

eskers are formed when a glacier begins to melt, streams of meltweater carrying a load of erode material flow through a tunnet that is craved under the glacier

Question 8

what is an outwsh plains

Answer 8

an outwash plain is a low,flat area of land made of sand and gravel. it is found in front of a terminal moraine

Question 9

how are outwash plains formed

Answer 9

as a glacier melts, meltweather carrying a load of sand and gravel froms the front of the glacier and spreads out over the lowland area