Geomorphology C (spring 2016)

Question 1

True or False

Topography is a controlling factor in your climate

Answer 1

True

Question 2

True or False

As elevation decreases average temperature decreases

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Know the Glacial Landscape drawing

Answer 3

It Will be Matching

Question 4

Glaciers grow when snowfall amounts are ____than the amount of snow that melts in a year

Answer 4

greater

Question 5

Glaciers have advanced across Mound ______ in the last million years

a. once
b. twice
c. 3 times
d. more than 3 times

Answer 5

d. more than 3 times

Question 6

What is a continental glacier/

Answer 6

A glacier covering a large area spreading out from and area of large snowfalls

Question 7

What is a valley or Alpine glacier?

Answer 7

A glacier flowing down from a mountain

Question 8

What is an Ice cap

Answer 8

A Special name given to glaciers forming in the polar regions

Question 9

Lake Superior causes Duluth to get ______ snow than most of MN

Answer 9

more

Question 10

The Atmosphere has never exceeded 300 parts per million in n400,00 years. Because of our pollution what was the measurement we took in Mound during class?

Answer 10

over 350 parts per million

Question 11

True or False

Being by a large body of water makes the winters cooler and cummers warmer

Answer 11

False

Question 12

True or False

Being by a large body of water makes winters warmer and summers cooler

Answer 12

True

Question 13

When an ice age occurs and glaciers form near the poles, global sea level ______

Answer 13

drops exposing more land that was once flooded

Question 14

How is an Esker formed

Answer 14

A river channel of sand that was lowered to the surface when the glacier melted

Question 15

The brief interruptions to glacial advance in an ice age are called _______

Answer 15

interglacial warm periods

Question 16

What is the normal ice age cycle the Earth has been in for millions of years

Answer 16

90,000 years of ice advance followed by 10,000 years of warm time

Question 17

What metric unit is best suited to measure the volume of a test tube

Answer 17

milliliter

Question 18

Glaciers are ice that moves because the amount of snow and ice that collects in the zone of accumulation exceeds the amount that melts off in the zone of _____

Answer 18

ablation

Question 19

True or False

as latitude increases average temperature increases

Answer 19

False

Question 20

True or False

As latitude decreases average temperature increases

Answer 20

True

Question 21

metric prefix for 1,000,000,000

Answer 21

giga

Question 22

metric prefix for 1,000,000

Answer 22

mega

Question 23

metric prefix for 1,000

Answer 23

kilo

Question 24

metric prefix for 100

Answer 24

hecto

Question 25

metric prefix for 10

Answer 25

deka

Question 26

metric prefix for 0

Answer 26

base unit

Question 27

metric prefix for 1/10

Answer 27

deci

Question 28

metric prefix for 1/100

Answer 28

centi

Question 29

metric prefix for 1/1000

Answer 29

milli

Question 30

metric prefix for 1/100,000

Answer 30

micro

Question 31

metric prefix for 1/1,000,000,000

Answer 31

nano

Question 32

metric prefix for 1/1,000,000,000,000

Answer 32

pico

Question 33

How much does sealevel have to rise to flood millions of people's homes and cropland

Answer 33

3 feet

Question 34

The world average temperature needs to change ______ celsius to create an ice age that would bury Mound in 10,00 feet of ice

Answer 34

5.5 degrees cooler

Question 35

How does latitude change your climate

Answer 35

the closer you get to the poles the lower the sun angle is in the sky

Question 36

Glaciers around the world are _____ in size

Answer 36

melting

Question 37

Global circulation changes your climate. Thirty degrees latitude is _____ because of circulation of the atmosphere

Answer 37

dry

Question 38

When the climate gets warmer, melting of the polar ice caps makes global sea level _______

Answer 38

rise, flooding land that was once dry

Question 39

Glacier national park had 150 glaciers 1850. Today there are?

Answer 39

25

Question 40

Mound was covered by a _______ glacier during the last glacial advance

Answer 40

continental

Question 41

Glaciers are made of_______

Answer 41

fresh drinkable water

Question 42

A decameter is best suited for measuring which distance

Answer 42

The length of a city block

Question 43

Ocean currents change the climate. England has _____ because of ocean currents

Answer 43

warmer winters

Question 44

The Earth has been experiencing ice ages for

Answer 44

over a billion years

Question 45

Glaciers flow into minnesota during an ice age because...

Answer 45

snow keeps falling in Canada

Question 46

When we study history we learn that human civilizations struggle and decline when the climate____

Answer 46

changes

Question 47

What happens to ice when it is put under pressure?

Answer 47

it becomes soft and flexible and flows

Question 48

How were the hills in Mound formed?

Answer 48

from Ground Moraine as the most recent glacier melted

Question 49

The most recent ice age was how long ago

Answer 49

1.8 million years

Question 50

The greatest area of snowfall during the last ice age was located

Answer 50

near Hudson Bay