16; Glaciers & Waterton-Glacier National Park

Question 1

A time in Earth’s history when there was no evidence of continental glaciation was the ______ period:

Answer 1

Permo-Traissic

Question 2

A _______ is a steep-sided, pyramid-shape mountain peek formed by glacial erosion:

Answer 2

horn

Question 3

A/an ______ isa planar surface of glacial origin, consisting of beveled, scoured, grooved, and scratched rocks in knobs:

Answer 3

ice-scoured plain

Question 4

______ moraines are NOT characteristic of continental glaciation?

Answer 4

Lateral

Question 5

________ are scratches and grooves on bedrock caused by glacial abrasion

Answer 5

Striations

Question 6

The oldest rocks in Waterton-Glacier Park are _____:

Answer 6

a Precambrian sedimentary rocks fo Belt Supergroup

Question 7

The ______ is the major fold structure trending down the middle Waterton-Glacier Park:

Answer 7

Akamina Sycline

Question 8

At Waterton-Glacier Park, rocks of _____-age lie on top of _______ age rocks:

Answer 8

Precambrian, Cretaceous

Question 9

Chief Mountain in Glacier Park is an example of an isolated displaced block of rock called a ______:

Answer 9

Klippe

Question 10

A/an _______ is an extensive area of interconnected valley glaciers from which the higher mountain peeks rise as nunataks:

Answer 10

Icefields