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Quizzes and Tests Review Test Submission: Chapter 19
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Review Test Submission: Chapter 19
User Karla Osolin
Course ESCI1310_D - Spring14 - CRN 18788 (Norton-Krane - Physical Geography)
Test Chapter 19
Started 4/28/14 12:08 PM
Submitted 4/28/14 12:21 PM
Due Date 5/4/14 11:59 PM
Status Completed
Attempt Score 20 out of 20 points
Time Elapsed 12 minutes out of 30 minutes.
Instructions
Question 1
During the Pleistocene, the ________ ice was the most extensive continental ice sheet in
the world.
Selected Answer: Laurentide
Question 2
The maximum extent of a glacier is marked by a ________.
Selected Answer: terminal moraine
Question 3
During the last Ice Age, sea level was ________.
Selected Answer: much lower than today's sea level
Question 4
Glaciers carve ________-shaped valleys.
Selected Answer: U
Question 5
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The most significant erosive work of glaciers is accomplished by ________.
Selected Answer: plucking
Question 6
A(n) ________ is created by a group of cirques eroding into a mountain peak.
Selected Answer: horn
Question 7
In some places, the crust of the Earth is rising as much as ________ per decade because
of crustal adjustment after the Pleistocene ice melted.
Selected Answer: 20 centimeters
Question 8
Which of the following is NOT a main glacial characteristic that any satisfactory theory of ice
age causes must account for?
Selected Answer: how snow transforms into glacial ice
Question 9
If you were to dig into a drumlin, you would find ________.
Selected Answer: unsorted glacial till
Question 10
Which of the following is accepted as the single causal mechanism for the Pleistocene
climate changes?
Selected Answer: None of the above is widely accepted.
Question 11
Unsorted debris from ice sheets, after deposition, is known as ________.
Selected Answer: till
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Question 12
Lubrication for downslope glacial movement is provided by ________.
Selected Answer: meltwater
Question 13
The blunt edge of a drumlin faces ________.
Selected Answer: in the direction opposite to the flow of ice
Question 14
Snow is changed by ________ into glacial ice.
Selected Answer: pressure and weathering
Question 15
Comparing two locations on a glacier, it is likely they are
Selected Answer: moving at different rates.
Question 16
Which of the following does NOT belong with the others?
Selected Answer: eskers
Question 17
The most recent glacial stage of the Pleistocene in North America was the ________.
Selected Answer: Wisconsin
Question 18
The first feature carved by a mountain glacier is a(n) ________.
Selected Answer: cirque
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Question 19
Long sinuous ridges of stratified drift are termed ________.
Selected Answer: eskers
Question 20
The slow melting of blocks of stagnant ice in the land surface is the cause of ________.
Selected Answer: kettle holes
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