section 4 ch. 8 vocab

Question 1

amount of sediment a river can carry

Answer 1

load

Question 2

very small particles (minerals) dissolved in water

Answer 2

solution

Question 3

clay, silt, and fine sands are kept from settling in the water which makes the water look muddy

Answer 3

suspension

Question 4

sediments which roll along the bottom of the river because they’re too heavy to be carried

Answer 4

bed load

Question 5

volume of water which passes a point in a given amount of time (measured in m to the third power/s)

Answer 5

discharge

Question 6

fast moving water, rapids, waterfalls, straight sections of river

Answer 6

immature river

Question 7

slower moving water, meanders, oxbow lakes

Answer 7

mature river

Question 8

Large mass of ice that moves over land slowly

Answer 8

glacier

Question 9

covers an entire continent near the poles.
They move outward from the center.
Cover Antarctica and much of Greenland

Answer 9

continental glacier

Question 10

covers the floor of a valley between 2 mountains
Smaller than continental glaciers but very long
Can move down the valley at a rate of several centimeters to meters per day.
Form when more snow falls than melts

Answer 10

valley glacier

Question 11

when a valley glacier flows several kilometers per year

Answer 11

surge

Question 12

picking up rocks as the glacier moves over land

Answer 12

plucking

Question 13

grinding away at rock

Answer 13

abrasion

Question 14

long, parallel scratches in the bedrock caused by the rock carried by the glacier

Answer 14

striations

Question 15

a semicircular basin formed at the head of the glacier formed by frost action

Answer 15

cirques

Question 16

a sharp ridge between two cirques

Answer 16

arete

Question 17

formed in an area with many cirques; it looks like a pyramid- shaped peak

Answer 17

horn

Question 18

a U-shaped valley

Answer 18

glacial trough

Question 19

small mountain lake

Answer 19

tarn

Question 20

formed when a tributary glacial valley is eroded by the main glacier

Answer 20

hanging valley

Question 21

will form when a river develops in a hanging trough

Answer 21

hanging valley waterfall

Question 22

a mixture of sediment left by a glacier on the surface (clay, silt, sand, gravel, or boulders)

Answer 22

till

Question 23

ridge of sediment along the sides of the glacier

Answer 23

lateral moraine

Question 24

ridge of sediment along the center of the glacier

Answer 24

medial moraine

Question 25

ridge of sediment pushed out in front of the glacier

Answer 25

end moraine (terminal moraine)

Question 26

fine-grained, silt-sized particles of rock

Answer 26

rock flour

Question 27

till-covered areas with irregular topography and no ridges, often forming gently rolling hills or plains

Answer 27

ground moraine

Question 28

large boulders transported and deposited by a glacier

Answer 28

erratics

Question 29

long, low, tear-shaped mound of till

Answer 29

drumlin

Question 30

deposit of stratified drift in front of a glacier

Answer 30

outwash plain

Question 31

long, winding ridge of gravel and coarse sand deposited by a glacier

Answer 31

esker

Question 32

irregular hill or mound found in the depression created by a glacier

Answer 32

kames

Question 33

depression in a glacial outwash plain

Answer 33

kettle (lakes)

Question 34

a small narrow glacier that moves from a high elevation to a low elevation

Answer 34

alpine glacier/valley glacier

Question 35

the largest glaciers that moves outward from a central point

Answer 35

continental glacier

Question 36

large mass of ice and snow that slowly moves in water

Answer 36

iceberg