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anu30 anu30
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What is a kettle?
 
  A. low elongated hills composed of unsorted till
  B. abraded bedrock hill shaped by overriding ice
  C. glacial-deposited till at the edges of glaciers
  D. irregular depressions shaped by blocks of ice
  E. meltwater channel on the underside of the ice

Question 2

What is a landform often composed of till that marks the outermost limit of a glaciers advance?
 
  A. recessional moraine
  B. roche mountonne
  C. terminal moraine
  D. ground moraine
  E. cirque

Question 3

What landform comes in a variety of shapes and sizes of glacier-deposited till?
 
  A. kame
  B. drumlins
  C. glacial erratics
  D. moraine
  E. kettles

Question 4

What is NOT true about a postglacial landscape produced by ice sheets?
 
  A. It has erratic streams.
  B. Soil is usually absent.
  C. It is absolutely flat.
  D. Lakes are common.
  E. It has low relief.

Question 5

What is the landform left behind from a glacier passing over a bedrock hill, characterized by a smooth stoss side and an irregular slope on the lee side?
 
  A. moraine
  B. roche mountonne
  C. kettle
  D. cirque
  E. drumlin

Question 6

Where did the Pleistocene ice sheets outside of Antarctica originate from and then spread outward in all directions?
 
  A. subtropical locations
  B. high elevations
  C. subpolar locations
  D. windward slopes
  E. polar locations

Question 7

What are the large boulders left behind from a melted glacier that are usually unique from surrounding rocks?
 
  A. glacial erratics
  B. moraines
  C. kettles
  D. glacial till
  E. glacial flour

Question 8

What is till?
 
  A. rock debris directly deposited by glacial ice
  B. material deposited by meltwater not by glaciers
  C. enormous boulders deposited by retreating ice
  D. finely ground rock material in a glaciers load
  E. general term for all material moved by glaciers
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anu30 Author
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6 years ago
Thanks a whole bunch, all were right.
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6 years ago
Thanks for confirming...
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