HONORS EARTH SCIENCE
GLACIER LAB
STATION 1- LAB BOOK page 90; Mount Blanc, France
NAME _______________
DATE _______ HOUR __
1. Which type of glacier is shown here? ______________________
2. What glacial feature is B pointing to? ___________________
What glacial feature is A pointing to? _____________________
3. Which type of moraine is letter D? ______________________
STATION 2- MICHIGAN CENTER, MICHIGAN
4. Name a kettle lake on this map. __________ Describe how it formed.
5. Blue Ridge contains sediments in layers . What glacier landform is Blue Ridge? _________ Explain how it formed.
6. What type of sediment (till,OW, SD) is Blue Ridge made of? _____________
STATION 3- MICHIGAN GLACIAL MAP
5. Name a town on an end moraine that is near Grosse Pointe ___________________
6. If you were to visit this area, what would the topography look like?
7. What type of sediment would be found here? __________
8. Using the map key, locate a drumlin field. Plot, with a D, where it is on the MI map at right. Do the same thing for an esker, use an E.
STATION 4- EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN
9. What evidence is there on this map that it is an outwash plain?
10. What sediment would you find here? (till, SD,OW) _________
STATION 5- GILS PIER MICHIGAN
11. All the circled hills are drumlins. By looking at the contour line, determine which way the ice advanced, after depositing the drumlin. __________
12. What type of sediment would you find here? (Till, OW, SD) ________________________
STATION 6- ROCK WITH GLACIAL STRIATION
13. Explain how these scratches were formed.
14. If you were a geologist, what information could these striations tell you? Be specific.

STATION 7- SEDIMENTS
15. What type of glacial sediment is in dish A? ________ Explain how you can tell.
16. Choose a continental glacier feature that this sediment could have come from? ________
17. What type of glacial sediment is in dish B? ______ Explain how you can tell.
18. Choose a continental glacier feature that this sediment could have come from? ______
Explain why.
STATION 8- PICTURES
19. What are these boulders called?
STATION 9- DIAGRAM BELOW
20. Label the following features on the diagram below:
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Terminal moraine
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Recessional moraine
E
A
F
D
B
20. Match the letter from the diagram above with the following glacial features esker _____ drumlins ____ kettle lake ____ outwash plain ___ kame__
C