Glaciers, coastlines, and climate

Question 1

What are thick masses of ice that form over land through compaction and crystallization of snow

Answer 1

Glaciers

Question 2

Glaciers that flow in a downward slope, following topography.

Answer 2

Valley/Alpine Glaciers

Question 3

larger in size that Alpine glaciers, form in regions like the poles where the temperature remains steady year round.

Answer 3

Ice sheets

Question 4

Glaciers in low lands that exit steep terrain

Answer 4

Piedmont Glaciers

Question 5

What are large relatively flat sheets of floating ice where ice sheets and glaciers meet in open water?

Answer 5

Ice Shelves

Question 6

What is frozen sea water?

Answer 6

Sea Ice

Question 7

What are habits of Glacier movement?

Answer 7

They can create/deepen valleys, wear or breakdown mountains, transport rock and sediment.

Question 8

Entire glacier Mass slips downhill

Answer 8

Slippage

Question 9

What is ice below certain mass and pressure break apart

Answer 9

Fracture

Question 10

What happens when ice exceeds critical mass & pressure?

Answer 10

Plastic flow

Question 11

What is the Glacier water Budget?

Answer 11

Accumulation and waste in the equilibrium of Glaciers advancing or retracting

Question 12

when freezing , thawing and scraping break rock free

Answer 12

Plucking

Question 13

As glaciers grind on Landmass, carving into Ice

Answer 13

Abrasion

Question 14

What are bowl shaped depressions near mountains?

Answer 14

Cirque

Question 15

u shaped valleys carved by glacial flow

Answer 15

Trough

Question 16

What percentage of the earth surface is oceans, seas, gulfs and bays?

Answer 16

71%

Question 17

What are the major oceans?

Answer 17

Pacific,Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic

Question 18

what are average typical properties of an ocean basin?

Answer 18

12,000/3700m

Question 19

What is the name for topography of the ocean floor?

Answer 19

Bathymetry

Question 20

Whats the area between the continental crust and oceanic crust?

Answer 20

Transitional areas

Question 21

Submerged continental crust

Answer 21

continental shelf

Question 23

area between continental shelf and ocean ridge

Answer 23

deep ocean basin

Question 24

Minerals that crystalize from sea water through chemical reaction

Answer 24

Hydrogeneous

Question 25

weathered rocks and minerals from continental crust

Answer 25

Terrigeneous

Question 26

shells and skeletons from marine organism that dissolve from calcium carbonate & Lime stone

Answer 26

Biogeneous

Question 27

percentage of earth covered in dry arid climate

Answer 27

30%

Question 28

What are features that define dry regions?

Answer 28

less than 25% of precipitation annually
very low humidity
lack of soil horizon
extreme varying temperature.

Question 29

What are the massive global deserts?

Answer 29

the Sahara, Patagonia, The Arabian/Persian/Gobi, Nambi, the great basin, polar desert,

Question 30

what are circular surface currents?

Answer 30

Gyre

Question 31

as a result of the Coriolis effects and continents

Answer 31

Boundary currents