Earth QUIZZES
Glaciers quiz
1. Glaciers are moving masses of what?
2. What is the name for the bowl-shaped feature where mountain glaciers form?
3. Lines made of rocky debris run along the sides or middle of a glacier. What are they called?
4. What is the shape of a typical glacial valley?
5. What is the name for a narrow ridge running between glacial valleys?
6. An ice sheet is an area of ice that permanently covers entire continents. Where are the Earth's two ice sheets?
7. What are deep cracks in glaciers called?
8. Smooth, tear-shaped hills formed when glaciers move over soft clay or gravel that has been deposited there by previous glaciers, are known as what?
9. Roughly what proportion of the Earth's land area is covered by ice today?
10. Roughly how much of the the world's fresh water is stored in glaciers, ice caps and ice sheets?
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