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1. True or False: Valley Glaciers can only be short and narrow and never have branching tributaries
A
True
B
False
C
2. True or False: the widths of the alpine glaciers are small compared to their lengths.
A
True
B
False
C
3. True or False: ice sheets are often referred to as continental ice sheets and are much larger than valley glaciers
A
True
B
False
C
4. Masses of glacial ice that cover uplands and plateaus
A
Upland Glaciers
B
Ice Caps
C
Valley Glaciers
5. True or False: the movement of a glacier is called a flow
A
True
B
False
C
6. Tension cracks in a glacier are called
A
Tension Fissures
B
Crevasses
C
Djibouti Cracks
7. Snow accumulation and ice formation occur in
A
Zone of Wastage
B
FroZone
C
Zone of Accumulation
8. As a glacier flows it loosens and lifts blocks of rock and incorporates them into the ice in a process known as
A
Abrasion
B
Plucking
C
Rock Flour
9. As ice and its load of fragments slide over bedrock, they act like sandpaper to smooth and polish the surface below in a process called
A
Abrasion
B
Plucking
C
Rock Flour
10. Bowl shaped depressions with walls on three sides are
A
Aretes
B
Cirques
C
Horns
11. True or False: Fiords are deep inlets of the sea that exist in high latitude areas of the world where mountains are adjacent to the ocean
A
True
B
False
C
12. An all embracing term for sediments of glacial origin
A
Glacial Hug
B
Glacial Deposit
C
Glacial Drift
13. Typically dry beds which carry water only in response to specific episodes of rainfall, usually found in desert areas
A
Ephemeral Streams
B
Dry Streams
C
Temporary Rivers
14. True or False: Playa lakes last for years and years
A
True
B
False
C
15. Windblown Silt is known as
A
Loess
B
Dust in the Wind
C
Rock Flour
16. True or False: Wind, like water and glaciers, can erode by the means of plucking
A
True
B
False
C
17. Sand dunes shaped like crescents
A
Star Dunes
B
Barchan Dunes
C
Transverse Dunes
18. Found in desert areas, such as Sahara, these dunes have bases shaped like stars
A
Star Dunes
B
Barchan Dunes
C
Transverse Dunes
19. Long ridges of sand forming more or less parallel to the prevailin wind.
A
Parabolic Dunes
B
Longitudinal Dunes
C
Barchanoid Dunes
20. These dunes form where vegetation partially covers the sand
A
Parabolic Dunes
B
Longitudinal Dunes
C
Barchanoid Dunes