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Glacial Landforms

1. What distinguishes alpine glaciers from continental glaciers?
   
   
2. What sort of information does the mass balance of a glacier provide for us?
   
   
3. What distinguishes the zone of ablation from the zone of accumulation?
   
   
4. Under what conditions will glaciers advance? become stationary? or retreat?
   
   
5. What types of erosional landforms do we find in areas that have undergone alpine glaciation?
   • What do these landforms look like?
     
     
6. If we're hiking high in a mountain valley, how can we determine whether the valley was eroded by glaciers or by rivers?
   
   
7. What are the different types of moraines associated with both alpine and continental glaciers?
   
   
8. What distinguishes a terminal moraine from a recessional moraine?
   
   
9. How do kettle holes form? Where do we find kettle holes?
   
   
10. How do drumlins indicate the direction of ice flow?
    
    
11. What are some examples of meltwater landforms?
    
    
12. How can we distinguish material deposited by meltwater from material deposited by glacial ice?
    
    
13. How do eskers form?
    
    
14. What is an outwash plain?
    
    
15. On what glacial landform is the city of Stevens Point located?