Glaciers and Glacial Landforms Learning Module, Physical Geography, Rita Haberlin, Instructor

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Physical Geography
Rita D. Haberlin, Instructor

Glaciers and Glacial Landforms Learning Module

PAK World Diagram Showing Glaciers 18,000 Years Ago During the Great Ice Age

Study Guide and Outline Notes

Study Guide on The Work of Ice, Glaciers and Glacial Landforms
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PowerPoint Presentation Outline Notes for The Work of Glaciers
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Tutorials and Study Questions

Glaciers 101 Tutorial
Explore this richly illustrated tutorial that provides a basic overview of glaciology. You can delve deeper into this topic using links to photographs and more detailed explanations.

View or Print the Study Questions for Glacial Landforms

Practice Quizzes

After completing the reading assignment and exploring the Web resources, study guide, and tutorial, review what you have learned with these quizzes:

Glaciers and Glacial Landforms Multiple Choice Quiz

Quizzes, Tarbuck and Lutgens, Chapter 6, Key Concepts 1-4 and Chapter Test

Lab Activities on the Web

Take Karen Lemke's virtual field trip to Glacier National Park and learn to interpret topographic maps of glacial landscapes and recognize glacial processes and landforms.

An exercise from Karen Lemke's Illustrated Glossary of Alpine Glacial Landforms. Answer questions about topographic maps and photos from glaciated regions throughout the Western United States.

Web Exploration

USGS Topograhic Map, Mount Oberlin, Glacier National Park

Don't Miss This!

An Illustrated Glossary of Alpine Glacial Landforms
There is a lot of terminology in the study of glaciers.
You will get a much better understanding of these terms if you explore each of the highlighted words and examine the photographs and topographic maps.

The Glacier Story, a quick tour through the life of a glacier.

An online tutorial from the National Snow and Ice Data Center. It answers such questions as, How is a glacier formed? Why do they move? Where are they located on Earth? and Why are they important? (Navigate the tutorial using the numbered buttons.)

Ice Caps, Glaciers, and Icesheets
This NASA Web site classifies the various glaciers and includes videos of the changes in ice sheets as they melt.

NASA Satellite image of Glacier Bay, Alaska

Satellite Images of Glaciers
Visit some of the world's great glaciers illustrated in this USGS satellite image atlas of glaciers.

Glaciers and Global Warming

What can we learn from glaciers about global warming?
Photographs from Antarctica, Alaska, and the Alps show rapidly receding and thinning of glaciers and ice shelves.

Glaciers in the National Parks

Where can you find active alpine glaciers in the National Parks? Where can you find evidence of an ice age in the mountains and in the plains?

Glaciers and Glaciation in the Western United States
How much of the Western United States was affected by the Ice Age? How many glaciers exist today? What kinds of hazards do they present to people and property?

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