Chapter 7 Guided Reading Assignment #1
1. Read: 186-198
2. Define the following terms:
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Ice Age
Glacier
Snowline
Valley Glacier
Ice Sheet
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Glacial Trough
TIll
Stratified Drift
Moraine
3. List the four key concepts for this section.
4. Where do we find water?
5. When was the ice age?
6. How do glaciers form?
7. Are glaciers motionless?
8. Where do ice sheets exist on Earth today?
9. How do glaciers move?
10. What determines how fast a glacier will move?
11. In the chart below give some details about each of the following types of land forms.
GLACIATED VALLEYS
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ARETES AND HORNS
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12. What causes a glacier to retreat?
13. How do glaciers cause erosion?
14. What is glacial drift?
15. In the table below, list how each of the following depositional features form.
FEATURES
LATERAL
MORAINE
HOW THEY FORMED?
End and Ground
Moraines
Terminal and
Recessional
Moraine
Outwash Plains
Ketles
Drunlins and
Eskers
16. Do 1-7 on page 198
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