User:Marshallsumter/Rocks/Glaciers/Quiz

Glaciers is a lecture and an article as part of the geology series.

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Quiz
{Yes or No, A slow-moving river of ice is called a glacier. + Yes - No
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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 glaciers are + water + carbon dioxide - tantalum + organic compounds + silicates - polyethylene
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{Complete the text: It has been recognized from previous studies that { human (i) }, as opposed to automated, delineation of glacier { outlines (i) } tended to digitize only a subset of all glaciers in a region, in general the { largest (i) } ones.
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{Complete the text: Match up the astroglacial object with each of the possibilities below: ice cap - A Christensen Glacier - B water in solid form - C behavior of frozen snow - D ice sheets - E Fedchenko Glacier - F Antarctica and Greenland { E (i) } cryopediology { D (i) }. Bouvetøya { B (i) }. Tajikistan { F (i) }. cryosphere { C (i) }. Vatnajökull, Iceland { A (i) }.
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{Complete the text: Match up the object with the image: Wedgemont alpine glacier - A Vatnajökull, Iceland - B the Cryosphere - C Antarctica - D Sawyer Glacier - E Malaspina Glacier - F { A (i) }. { D (i) }. { F (i) }. { C (i) }. { E (i) } { B (i) }.
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{Which of the following is not a glacier? - Vatnajökull, Iceland + Van Allen radiation belts - the last ice sheets in Europe and North America + the cryosphere + 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 glacial characteristic of ice? - an albedo as high as 80% - thin water frost deposits - ice knobs + tidal heating events - surface is composed of water ice - napajäätikkö
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{Yes or No, A glacier that has one or more tributary glaciers that flow into it is a branched-valley glacier? - No + Yes
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Hypotheses

 * 1) There are no glaciers on Io.