Glacier Features

Question 1

Jagged, knife-edge ridge between two cirques or glaciated valleys

Answer 1

Arête

Question 2

Mtn pass formed by head wall erosion of cirques

Answer 2

Col

Question 3

Steep sided pyramid produced by headward erosion of several cirques

Answer 3

Horn

Question 4

Small lake in a cirque

Answer 4

Tarn

Question 5

Steep slope or rock cliff at the upslope end of a glaciated valley

Answer 5

Head wall

Question 6

U shaped glaciated valley formed by scouring action of a valley glacier

Answer 6

Glacial trough

Question 7

Elevated above main trough

Answer 7

Hanging valley

Question 8

Asymmetrical knoll or small hill of bedrock formed by glacial abrasion

Answer 8

Roche moutonnee

Question 9

Parallel linear scratches and grooves in bedrock surfaces, resulting from glacial scouring

Answer 9

Striations

Question 10

Small rounded lake or water saturated depression in glacial drift formed by melting of a detached block of ice

Answer 10

Kettle lake

Question 11

Boulder or smaller fragment of Rock resting far from its source on bedrock of different type

Answer 11

Erratic

Question 12

Ridge of till that forms at terminus of a glacier behind and generally parallel to terminal Lorain

Answer 12

Recessional morraine

Question 13

Ridge of till formed from melting ice and mass wasting at the side of a valley glacier

Answer 13

Lateral moraine

Question 14

Layers of sediment in the lake bed, deltas, or beaches of a glacial lake

Answer 14

Glacial lake deposits

Question 15

Unstartified sheets of clayey silt and silty clay transported beyond margins of a glacier by wind and or braided streams

Answer 15

Loess

Question 16

Sheet like layer of till left on the landscape by receding glacier

Answer 16

Ground morraine

Question 17

Ridge of till that forms at the farthest advance

Answer 17

Terminal morraine

Question 18

Steep sided mound of stratified dirft that formed in contact with glacial ice

Answer 18

Kame

Question 19

Long Marie sinuous ridge of stratified drift deposited by meltwater streams flowing under the glacier

Answer 19

Esker

Question 20

Ridge of till either in transit or deposited along the boundary between two tributary glaciers

Answer 20

Medial moraine

Question 21

Streamlined hill commonly composed of till ideally with a steep slope facing the direction from which the ice came

Answer 21

Drum line

Question 22

Bowl shaped depression on a high mtn slope formed by cirque glacier

Answer 22

Cirque