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1. What can large ice sheets do to change the landscape of the Earth’s surface?
2. Where do large ice sheets come from?
3. Describe how an ice sheet can be made and grow.
4. What is a glacier?
5. What is a continental glacier? Name two of them.
6. What is a valley glacier?
7. Describe how a valley glacier is made.
8. What is the snout of a glacier?
9. What is an advancing glacier?
10. What is a stationary glacier? What needs to happen for a glacier to be stationary?
11. What is a retreating glacier? What needs to happen for a glacier to be retreating?
12. What is an erratic? Describe how it could have been placed in an area.
13. What is the Ice Age?
14. How do we know that this time period existed?
15. What causes ice ages (Describe at least 3 theories)?
16. How long ago was the last retreat of the Ice Age?
17. Describe the following structures made by glaciers. Also describe how these formations are formed.
a) Striations:
b) Lateral or side moraines:
c) End moraines:
d) Drift:
e) Outwash:
f) Braided Streams:
g) Drumlin:
h) Eskers:
i) Glaciated Valley:
j) Kettle Lake:
18. What is happening to present day glaciers?
19. What information can we obtain while studying the ice of glaciers?
20. What conclusions have been found based on our findings?
21. Draw a glacier and put into your drawing the following structures:
 | Outwash Plain |
| Erratic |
| Braided Stream |
| Drumlin |
| Esker |
| Side or lateral moraine |
| Kettle lake |
| End moraine |
| Outwash |
http://www.fs.fed.us/r10/tongass/forest_facts/resources/geology/glacier_picture.html - A diagram of a glacier!
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