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COURSE LECTURE NOTES:

| SCIENCE | MATTER | SOLAR SYSTEM | PLANETS | ATMOSPHERE | WIND and TEMPERATURE | HUMIDITY | WEATHERING | SOIL | SEASONS | MASS WASTING | SEASONS and CLIMATE | WIND WORK | STREAMS | LAND FORMS | GROUND WATER | CAVES/KARST | THE OCEAN | TIDES & ESTUARIES | WAVES | GLACIERS | GLACIAL LANDFORMS | VOLCANOES | VOLCANOES | CHON | PLATE TECHTONICS | EARTHQUAKES | ROCKS | CLIMATE CHANGE |

GLACIAL LANDFORMS

1. Erosional landforms
a. U-shaped valley - generally long, narrow, and straight. Ice is solid and pushes everything out of the way. If it has water in it, such as in Norway, it is known as a fjord




b. horn - has sharp pointed top. Named after the Matterhorn Alp in Switzerland. Has very little vegetation, hasn't weathered enough.




c. cirque - depression where glacier started, heaviest part of glacier



d. arete - narrow ridge between u - shaped valleys




2. Deposional landforms
a. moraine - pile of till, can be very tall, can be front, lateral, resessional.






b. kettle - created when a block of ice remains when the glaicer retreats. Many in Minnesota, "Land of 10,000 Lakes", should be 1,000 lakes and 9,900 kettle lakes.




c. esker - hill (ridge) of sorted outwash, sometimes known as a horse bak ridge.

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