GEOMORPHIC PROCESS 1
WORKSHEET - 2
Part 1: Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
Circle the correct answer for each question.
1. Together, the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets hold approximately what
percentage of Earth's fresh water?
a) 99%
b) 75%
c) 68%
d) 50%
2. Which type of glacier forms when valley glaciers flow out of confining walls,
merge, and spread out laterally over a broad lowland?
a) Alpine glacier
b) Piedmont glacier
c) Ice sheet
d) Cirque glacier
3. What is the regional name used for an armchair-shaped glacial erosional
depression (cirque) in England and Scotland?
a) Cwm
b) Corrie
c) Tarn
d) Fjord
4. A Roche Moutonnée is an asymmetrical rocky outcrop where the side facing the
oncoming ice (stoss side) is:
a) Steep and jagged due to plucking
b) Gentle, smooth, and polished due to abrasion
c) Deeply submerged by the sea
d) A long winding ridge of stratified gravel
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5. When multiple collective fields of drumlins appear together in a landscape, they
form what is known as a:
a) Basket of eggs topography
b) Sandur plain
c) Crag and tail system
d) Karst window
6. Which of the following represents the correct sequence of karst surface
depressions arranged from smallest to largest?
a) Polje → Uvala → Doline → Swallow hole → Sinkhole
b) Sinkhole → Swallow hole → Doline → Uvala → Polje
c) Doline → Sinkhole → Uvala → Swallow hole → Polje
d) Swallow hole → Sinkhole → Polje → Doline → Uvala
7. The Mawsmai Cave, a well-known Indian limestone cave system, is located in
which state?
a) Uttarakhand
b) Alaska
c) Meghalaya
d) Jammu and Kashmir
Part 2: True or False
Write True or False in the space provided before each statement.
1. __________ Plucking occurs when glacial meltwater scrapes against the ground,
scratching and polishing the underlying bedrock surface.
2. __________ A tarn is a lake that often forms within the basin of a cirque after the
glacial ice melts.
3. __________ Waterfalls frequently form where a hanging valley meets a deeper main
glacial valley.
4. __________ Eskers are mounds of poorly sorted till, whereas kames are long,
winding, sinuous ridges of stratified sand and gravel.
5. __________ Soluble rocks like limestone, dolomite, and gypsum are central to the
chemical weathering that shapes Karst regions.
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6. __________ Stalactites are calcareous columns of mineral deposits that grow upward
from a cave floor.
Part 3: Fill in the Blanks
Fill in the blank space with the most appropriate word or phrase.
1. The largest piedmont glacier in the world is the _________________________
Glacier in Alaska.
2. A sharp, pyramid-shaped mountain peak formed when multiple cirques erode
different sides of a single mountain is called a horn; a classic example is the
_________________________ in the Swiss Alps.
3. Deep, steep-sided, glacier-carved valleys that become submerged and occupied by the
sea after a glacier retreats are known as _________________________.
4. A _________________________ moraine forms in the middle of an ice mass where
two separate glaciers converge and their edges meet.
5. A flat fluvioglacial plain made up of fine sediments deposited by large quantities of
meltwater flowing away from a melting glacier is called an outwash plain or a
_________________________.
6. An _________________________ is a very large surface depression in a karst
landscape formed when multiple expanding dolines encroach on one another and link
up.
7. A _________________________ is a vertical, pipe-like passage that naturally
connects surface swallow holes to underground cave networks.
8. When a downward-growing stalactite and an upward-growing stalagmite meet, they
join together to form a solid vertical structure called a _________________________.