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Glaciers: Learning About the Earth

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Question 1

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What is a glacier?

a large mountain

a huge river with flowing ice and snow

an island covered with snow

Question 2

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Where are most glaciers found?

North America

Asia

Antarctica

Europe

Question 3

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A glacier has 3 parts, what are they?

Ice, ice, and more ice

water, slush, ice

snow, ice, snow

snow, mix of snow and ice, solid ice

Question 4

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Which best describes the process for how a glacier is formed?

Snow falls from the sky and freezes

Snow falls over and over again freezing what is underneath it. This causes the layers to get deeper. Once it becomes heavy, it begins to slide downhill and spread out.

Rain must fall 3 days in a row and then the temperatures drop below freezing. This causes the rain to freeze and turn into ice. 

Question 5

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Which of these is NOT an effect of glaciers on Earth?

Glaciers make the water levels rise which causes floods in many areas. 

Glaciers grind away at the Earth.

Glaciers push rocks to the side which creates hills.

Glaciers help carve valleys where lakes then form.