Glaciers & Deserts
Long quiz
1. What do we call
this cracks?
2. What do we call
the zone where
these cracks are
found?
3. Describe in 1
word/phrase the
zone where
these cracks are
found.
4. What do we call the
huge mass of ice
floating in the water?
5. What do we call the
process of breaking of
these large chunks of
ice?
6. Compare the rate of
breaking down of ice
now and during the
early 19th century.
7. What type of
glaciers is
shown in this
picture?
8-9 . Identify
these
features.
10. What do the
black stripes
imply?
11. Which view in
the diagram
shows how a
line of stakes
planted straight
across the toe
area of a
mountain
glacier will look
after a few
months?
12-13. What type
of flow occurs
in these
regions?
14. What does
the snowline
represent?
15. What
happens
when the
budget is
balanced?
16. What does the
black line tell
us?
17. What will
happen if I
increase the
amount of
snowfall?
18. What will
happen if I
increase the
temperature?
19-22. Identify these features.
23. What will happen to these topography after undergoing
period of glaciations?
24. What do we
call this rock?
25. What has
deposited
this?
26. What do we
call materials
deposited by
glacial ice?
27. What do call
materials
deposited by
glacial melt
water?
28. What are
these holes?
29. Describe
how they
form.
30. Explain the
Milankovitch
theory (what
it is & what
are the
milankovitch
cycle)
31. What is the latitude
range where the major
deserts of the world
are found?
32. List the categories of
deserts?
33. What is this
feature?
34. What type of
erosion produces
this feature?
35. Aside this
feature, what
other feature can
be produced by
this type of
erosion?
36-41. Identify these types of sand dunes.
43. Identify this feature.
44. What does the arrow
represent.
45. What do we call these features?
46. Describe how these are produce.
47. What do we
call theseindividual
fan-shaped
features?
48. How are
these
formed?
49. What do we
call the
features that
are formed
when these
fans
coalesce?
50. Identify these features