Homework questions #3 Flashcards
1
Q
Name two continental ice sheets the still exist today.
A
Aunt Arctica and Greenland
2
Q
How many glaciers are in CA?
A
1700
3
Q
What is the condition of the Bering Strait?
A
Dry Land Bridge
4
Q
How many feet could portions of the Earth’s crust sink? and what is this process called?
A
4000, isostatic adjustment
5
Q
Glaciers reshape the topography by what?
A
erosion, transportation, and deposition of rock.
6
Q
Did glaciers ever cover Half Dome?
A
nope
7
Q
Plucking tends to what? the underlying surface and abrasion tends to what?
A
- roughen
2. polish
8
Q
The basic landform feature in glaciated mountains is the what?
A
The cirque
9
Q
What was the first landform feature produced by alpine glaciation quarried out of a mountain side?
A
The cirque
10
Q
Glaciers gouge out a valley trough in the shape of a what?
A
A U shape.
