Glaciation Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

permafrost - Answer-forms when soil or rock temperatures remain below 32 degrees for at least 2 years glacier - Answer-large mass of perennial ice resting on land or floating shelflike in sea formed from accumulation and recrystillazation of snow snowline - Answer-where the lowest elevation where snow remains year arounf alpine glacier - Answer-glacier in a mountain range cirque - Answer-scooped-out, amphitheater-shaped basin at the head of an alpine glacier valley; an erosional landform ...

SCI 225 EXAM 2 How can we know climate of the past? - correct answer ice cores and sedimentary rocks Louis Agazzis - correct answer created glaciation hypothesis after studying glacial erratics and striations Glacial erratics - correct answer enormous boulders transported and deposited by glaciers glaciation hypothesis - correct answer over time climate can change and during cold periods glaciers move down and during warm periods they retreat HMS challenger - correct answer a ship t...

SCI 225 EXAM 2How can we know climate of the past? - correct answer ice cores and sedimentary rocks Louis Agazzis - correct answer created glaciation hypothesis after studying glacial erratics and striations Glacial erratics - correct answer enormous boulders transported and deposited by glaciers glaciation hypothesis - correct answer over time climate can change and during cold periods glaciers move down and during warm periods they retreat HMS challenger - correct answer a ship tha...

stand correct answers a group of trees of similar species composition, age, or spatial arrangement growing under approximately the same site conditions (e.g. soil, light, moisture, etc) -age class -competition/density -composition -site quality correct answers A stand of trees can be demarcated by? forest correct answers a 3-dimensional ecological system dominated by trees and other woody vegetation that exists in dynamic interaction with the landscape and the environment -climate (p...

GEOG 1111 FINAL EXAM Questions With 100% Correct Answers permafrost - answerforms when soil or rock temperatures remain below 32 degrees for at least 2 years glacier - answerlarge mass of perennial ice resting on land or floating shelflike in sea formed from accumulation and recrystillazation of snow snowline - answerwhere the lowest elevation where snow remains year arounf alpine glacier - answerglacier in a mountain range cirque - answerscooped-out, amphitheater-shaped basin at the hea...

GEOG 1111 FINAL EXAM Questions With 100% Correct Answers permafrost - answerforms when soil or rock temperatures remain below 32 degrees for at least 2 years glacier - answerlarge mass of perennial ice resting on land or floating shelflike in sea formed from accumulation and recrystillazation of snow snowline - answerwhere the lowest elevation where snow remains year arounf alpine glacier - answerglacier in a mountain range cirque - answerscooped-out, amphitheater-shaped basin at the hea...

EAPS 112 Earth History - Purdue University. LAB 13 Pleistocene glaciations EAPS 112 Fall 2022. Q&A LAB 13 (Exercise 19 of the Lab Manual) – Pleistocene Glaciation • To be able to recognize and in terpret landforms associated with continental and valley glaciation Source Acknowledgments: National Snow and Ice Data Center,

How can we know climate of the past? Correct Answer ice cores and sedimentary rocks Louis Agazzis Correct Answer created glaciation hypothesis after studying glacial erratics and striations Glacial erratics Correct Answer enormous boulders transported and deposited by glaciers Glaciation hypothesis Correct Answer over time climate can change and during cold periods glaciers move down and during warm periods they retreat HMS challenger Correct Answer a ship that took a voyage to study...

GEOG 1111 FINAL EXAM Questions With 100% Correct Answers permafrost - answerforms when soil or rock temperatures remain below 32 degrees for at least 2 years glacier - answerlarge mass of perennial ice resting on land or floating shelflike in sea formed from accumulation and recrystillazation of snow snowline - answerwhere the lowest elevation where snow remains year arounf alpine glacier - answerglacier in a mountain range cirque - answerscooped-out, amphitheater-shaped basin at the hea...

Science 225 exam 2How do we know climate of the last? - correct answer Ice cores and sedimentary rocks Louis Agassiz - correct answer 1830s-European Alps glaciation hypothesis Glacial erratic - correct answer Boulders of rocks out of place Glacial striations - correct answer Grooves in rocks moving in same direction HMS challenger - correct answer : fossils different in cold and warm areas Milankovitch - correct answer s: change in orbital parameters forces climate change hypothes...