What is the glacial drift, till? - ANSWERSSand, silt and clay this is in layers from deposition by glaciers
What is formed when a continental glacier remains in one position for 50 to 300 years? - ANSWERSA recessional moraine
Which of the following is found in Illinois? - ANSWERSa terminal mo...
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What is the glacial drift, till? - ANSWERSSand, silt and clay this is in layers from
deposition by glaciers
What is formed when a continental glacier remains in one position for 50 to 300 years? -
ANSWERSA recessional moraine
Which of the following is found in Illinois? - ANSWERSa terminal moraine
Which would you not find in Illinois? - ANSWERSarête
What is the most common glacial feature in Kane County? - ANSWERSMoraine
Which landform that is common in Illinois, is formed perpendicular to the direction of ice
flow? - ANSWERSrecessional moraines
Go to http://opengeology.org/historicalgeology/virtual-field-experiences-vfes/vfe-
glaciers/ Links to an external site.and answer question 1. - ANSWERSalpine glacier
Go to http://opengeology.org/historicalgeology/virtual-field-experiences-vfes/vfe-
glaciers/ Links to an external site.and answer question 2. - ANSWERSValley Y because
it has a "U" shaped topography
Go to http://opengeology.org/historicalgeology/virtual-field-experiences-vfes/vfe-
glaciers/ Links to an external site. and answer question 3. - ANSWERSTarn
Go to http://opengeology.org/historicalgeology/virtual-field-experiences-vfes/vfe-
glaciers/ Links to an external site., and answer the first part of question 6 (yellow circle).
- ANSWERSStriae
Go to http://opengeology.org/historicalgeology/virtual-field-experiences-vfes/vfe-
glaciers/ Links to an external site.and answer question 9. - ANSWERSSample B
The listing of the geologic eras from oldest on the bottom to youngest on the top in a
chart, is conforming to - ANSWERSPrinciple of superposition
If you see a rock with a fossil of an animal with 2 shells, like a mussel or an oyster, you
can deduce that the geologic environment it lived in could be a - ANSWERSlake
Scientific evidence tells us that the Earth is - ANSWERS4.6 billion years old
, Which of the following rocks could you use radioactivity to get a useable numerical age
of it? - ANSWERSGabbro
If you saw a sequence of rocks, and you came to the conclusion that the rock on the
very bottom was formed by a glacier because it had evidence of striae on the clasts and
it resembles a till, you would be using the principle of - ANSWERSuniformitarianism
If you saw a rock that had fossils of vertebrate animals, you would say that the rock is
young, relative to the age of the earth, because of (the) - ANSWERSprinciple of faunal
succession
All of the following apply to the Tully Monster, except - ANSWERSIt was an animal that
was fearsome that lived on land
Antarctica has been cold since the time of Pangea - ANSWERSFalse
Examples of how the oceans influence climate are - ANSWERSGulf Stream
Please go to https://bit.ly/2NcnGC2 Links to an external site.. You are looking at the
currents in the upper 400 m of the Atlantic Ocean, and red is warm and green is cooler.
From this you can deduce that this is a - ANSWERSSurface current transporting warm
water north to Europe
Wave ____ around headlands in rocky nearshore environments typically produce
______ - ANSWERSRefraction & sea stacks
Where is a sandy beach the widest? - ANSWERSOn the up-longshore drift side of a
groin
All of the following are true about best fit lines, except - ANSWERSThey connect all the
points in a single line
Which of the following are contained in the nucleus of an atom? - ANSWERSneutrons
and protons
The mass of an atom is equal to the mass of all the - ANSWERSneutrons and protons
When elements combine with themselves or other elements, they form -
ANSWERScompounds
If an atom has 4 protons, 4 neutrons and 4 electrons, its atomic mass is - ANSWERS8
AMU
The sun is directly overhead on the equinoxes at - ANSWERS0º
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