User:Marshallsumter/Rocks/Glaciers/Glaciology/Quiz

Glaciology is a lecture, part of the geology series.

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Quiz
{True or False, The study of the internal dynamics and effects of glaciers is called glaciology. + TRUE - FALSE
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{The cryosphere is likely to include which of the following? + water in solid form + sea ice - rain + lake ice + river ice + snow cover + glaciers + ice caps + ice sheets
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{The science of the behavior of frozen snow is called { cryopediology (i) }
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{Chemistry phenomena associated with glaciology are + water + carbon dioxide + silicates - plastic + organic compounds - the human genome
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{Complete the text: Satellite imagery and data from ground surveys are used to reconstruct the { integrated (i) } pattern of the principal longitudinal and { transverse (i) } features produced on a continent-wide scale by the last { ice (i) } sheets in Europe and { North America|America (i) }.
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{Complete the text: Match up the glacial object with each of the possibilities below: ice cap - A optical characteristics of sediment suspensions - B water in solid form - C behavior of frozen snow - D ice sheets - E dirt cones - F cryopediology { D (i) }. lake Veitastrondsvatn { B (i) }. Skaftárjökull { F (i) }. cryosphere { C (i) }. Antarctica and Greenland { E (i) } Vatnajökull, Iceland { A (i) }.
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{Complete the text: Match up the object with the image: melting permafrost - A Vatnajökull, Iceland - B the Cryosphere - C Antarctica - D pancake ice - E uplift - F { A (i) }. { F (i) }. { C (i) }. { E (i) } { B (i) }. { D (i) }.
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{ Yes or No, Looks like a mountain glacier and has active flow; usually includes a poorly sorted mess of rocks and fine material; may include: (1) interstitial ice a meter or so below the surface (ice-cemented), (2) a buried core of ice (ice-cored), and/or (3) rock debris from avalanching snow and rock is a rock glacier? - No + Yes
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{Which of the following is not a glacier? - Vatnajökull, Iceland - the last ice sheets in Europe and North America - the cryosphere + an abyssal plain - frozen snow - ice sheets are in Antarctica and Greenland
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{True or False, During the last glacial period at Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) the Laurentide ice sheet covered much of North America. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Which of the following is not a characteristic of ice? - an albedo as high as 80% - thin water frost deposits - ice knobs + tidal heating events - surface is composed of water ice - blue
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Hypotheses

 * 1) There are near or subsurface glaciers on Mars.