Glaciation Test Review

• What is an ice age?
• how many ice ages have there been?
• how is a glacier an agent of weathering and erosion?
• what types of landforms are created by glaciers? ice? water?
• what is the scraping action of a glacier called ? [Eddy - you'd better study this one]
• how does a glacier form?
• how and why does a glacier flow?
• what factors influence whether a glacier advances, retreats or remains stationary?
• what is isostasy, and how is it related to glaciers?
• How were the Oak Ridges Moraine, Holland Marsh, Lake Simcoe, Lake Ontario, finger lakes formed?
• How and why do crevasses form?
• what are the four types of glaciers?
• how will global warming affect the world's glaciers?
• how should the class depict glaciation in their ballet culminating task?
• how will neve react when she finds out ice has left her?
• will Cal smile again?
• would Stephen be squished by a glacier more or less than in a recumbent fold?
• Stay tuned for more exciting episodes from "As the glacier churns"

Test Breakdown (or is that....Weathering?)

Part A: True or False...........10 marks

Part B: Fill in the Blanks.......5 marks

Part C: Short Answer [Choose 3 out of 6]......15 marks

Part D: Long Answer {Choose 5 out of 10)........150 marks

just kidding

Part D: Long Answer (Choose 2 out of 3).........30 marks

Grand Total: Huge mark out of 60

p.s. if someone actually reads this, could you please remind ms. ellis about the lost squadron? it's really very interesting. no really.

thanks.