Glaciers, Deserts and Wind

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Questions to Answer:

  1. List and describe the two major types of glaciers. Include where they occur and an example of each.
  2. Distinguish between the two terms till and stratified drift.
  3. Define the terms glacial trough, cirque, arete, moraine, esker, and drumlins.
  4. What are the two primary proposed causes of ice ages and glaciation in our textbook?
  5. List and describe five types of sand dunes.

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List and describe the two major types of glaciers. Include where they occur and an
example of each.
Continental glaciers are formed from the snow accumulation. Thick layers of thick snow
accumulate, thus creating deeply buried snowflakes that increasingly become more tightly
packed together. These densely compacted snowflakes cause some rounded shapes formed from
hexagonal snowflake shape that becomes ruined. Example includes Antarctica and Greenland.
Conversely, Alpine glaciers just like the continental gl...


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