drumlins | tear drop shaped mounds of debris, pointed end faces the front of the glacier |
dynamic equilibrium | opposing forces or actions balancing out results in no change |
glacier | a large body of ice moving slowly down a slope or valley or spreading outward on a land surface ( deposit unsorted sediment) |
kettle lake | forms when a depression left in till by melting ice fills with water |
outwash plain | area in front of a glacier in which melt water from the glacier has carried & deposited an abundance of sorted material |
erratic | large boulder transported and deposited by a glacier. Sticks out does not match rocks in area |
esker | long, winding ridge of layered sediments deposited by streams that flow beneath a melting glacier |
striation | Long parallel scratches left on rocks and bedrock by glacial movement. |
terminal moraine | The final deposit of glacial debris marking the farthest advance of a glacier |
U-shaped valleys | these are carved by glaciers |