Physical Geology 15th Edition By Charles (Carlos) Plummer – Test Bank

Chapter 12
Glaciers and Glaciation

True / False Questions

1. The two types of glaciated terrain on the Earth’s surface are alpine and valley.
FALSE

Bloom’s Level: 2. Understand
Topic: Glaciers

2. Where glaciers exist they are far more effective agents of erosion, transportation, and deposition than running water.
TRUE

Bloom’s Level: 2. Understand
Topic: Glaciers

3. Unsorted and unlayered rock debris carried or deposited by glaciers is called till.
TRUE

Bloom’s Level: 1. Remember
Topic: Glaciers

4. The compacted mass of granular snow, transitional between snow and ice, is called firn.
TRUE

Bloom’s Level: 1. Remember
Topic: Glaciers

5. Glaciers are part of the hydrosphere.
TRUE

Bloom’s Level: 2. Understand
Topic: Glaciers

6. Glaciers with a positive budget are advancing glaciers.
TRUE

Bloom’s Level: 2. Understand
Topic: Glaciers

7. The thicker part of a glacier will flow slower than where it is thinner.
FALSE

Bloom’s Level: 2. Understand
Topic: Glaciers

8. Glaciers in temperate climates may have crevasses that extend to their base.
FALSE

Bloom’s Level: 2. Understand
Topic: Glaciers

9. A large trunk glacier erodes downward more rapidly and carves a deeper valley than do smaller tributary glaciers.
TRUE

Bloom’s Level: 2. Understand
Topic: Glaciers

10. A U-shaped valley (in cross section) is characteristic of glacial erosion.
TRUE