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EESA06 Final Exam Study Guide Solutions
Limestone - Ans:✔✔-The Type of Rock where you can commonly find fossils
Melting Permafrost - Ans:✔✔-Causes Subsidence
Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary - Ans:✔✔-When the Dino's Became extinct (65 Ma)
Oak Ridges Moraine - Ans:✔✔-Largest Glacial Landform in Southern Ontario
How Many Glaciations have there been in the past 2 Million year? - Ans:✔✔-50
Erratic Boulders - Ans:✔✔-Are Carried by Glaciers from a distant location. Discovered by Louis Agassiz
What do Greenstone Belts do? - Ans:✔✔-Record Ancient oceans
Greenstone Belts are made up of.... - Ans:✔✔-Metamorphosed Basalts
Esker - Ans:✔✔-Is made up of sand and gravel from outwash process
Sudbury Basin (1.8 Billion ya) - Ans:✔✔-Ancient meteorite impact crater
Which time period do we currently live in - Ans:✔✔-Holocene
Shatter Cones - Ans:✔✔-A Record of Meteorite Impact
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Hydrograph - Ans:✔✔-1) measures rainfall 2) measures river discharge
Glacier - Ans:✔✔-A Large, perennial mass of ice that forms on land and moves under influence of gravity
2 Most important types of Glaciers - Ans:✔✔-1) Valley Glaciers 2) Ice Sheets -> which form Ice Caps
How does a Glacier Move? - Ans:✔✔-1)Basal Sliding and 2) Internal Flow
A Receding Glacier.... - Ans:✔✔-has a negative budget
An Advancing Glacier... - Ans:✔✔-has a positive budget
Snow Recrystallizes into.... - Ans:✔✔-Firn which then turns into Glacial Ice
3 Ways Glacial Ice is Ablated (Lost) - Ans:✔✔-1) Melting 2) breaking off as icebergs 3) Evaporation of ice
into air
Rock Flour - Ans:✔✔-When two rocks are grinding against each other it produces
Alpine Glaciation - Ans:✔✔-on mountains
Ice Sheet - Ans:✔✔-over continents
Alpine Glaciation on mountains produces... - Ans:✔✔-U-Shaped Valleys
Hanging Valley - Ans:✔✔-Smaller conjoining areas of a main glacier
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FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024
EESA06 Final Exam Study Guide Solutions
Limestone - Ans:✔✔-The Type of Rock where you can commonly find fossils
Melting Permafrost - Ans:✔✔-Causes Subsidence
Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary - Ans:✔✔-When the Dino's Became extinct (65 Ma)
Oak Ridges Moraine - Ans:✔✔-Largest Glacial Landform in Southern Ontario
How Many Glaciations have there been in the past 2 Million year? - Ans:✔✔-50
Erratic Boulders - Ans:✔✔-Are Carried by Glaciers from a distant location. Discovered by Louis Agassiz
What do Greenstone Belts do? - Ans:✔✔-Record Ancient oceans
Greenstone Belts are made up of.... - Ans:✔✔-Metamorphosed Basalts
Esker - Ans:✔✔-Is made up of sand and gravel from outwash process
Sudbury Basin (1.8 Billion ya) - Ans:✔✔-Ancient meteorite impact crater
Which time period do we currently live in - Ans:✔✔-Holocene
Shatter Cones - Ans:✔✔-A Record of Meteorite Impact
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Hydrograph - Ans:✔✔-1) measures rainfall 2) measures river discharge
Glacier - Ans:✔✔-A Large, perennial mass of ice that forms on land and moves under influence of gravity
2 Most important types of Glaciers - Ans:✔✔-1) Valley Glaciers 2) Ice Sheets -> which form Ice Caps
How does a Glacier Move? - Ans:✔✔-1)Basal Sliding and 2) Internal Flow
A Receding Glacier.... - Ans:✔✔-has a negative budget
An Advancing Glacier... - Ans:✔✔-has a positive budget
Snow Recrystallizes into.... - Ans:✔✔-Firn which then turns into Glacial Ice
3 Ways Glacial Ice is Ablated (Lost) - Ans:✔✔-1) Melting 2) breaking off as icebergs 3) Evaporation of ice
into air
Rock Flour - Ans:✔✔-When two rocks are grinding against each other it produces
Alpine Glaciation - Ans:✔✔-on mountains
Ice Sheet - Ans:✔✔-over continents
Alpine Glaciation on mountains produces... - Ans:✔✔-U-Shaped Valleys
Hanging Valley - Ans:✔✔-Smaller conjoining areas of a main glacier
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