45 Chapter 14 Extreme Realms After Class Review Questions

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PHS 101 Chapter 14 Extreme Realms After Class Review Questions 1. What factors determine whether a region can be classified as a desert? Why do deserts form? 2. How do weathering and soil-forming processes in deserts differ from those in temperate or humid climates? 3. Explain the ways in which desert winds transport sediment. 4. Describe the process of cliff retreat and the resulting landforms. 5. What is the process of desertification, and what causes it? 1
6. How do mountain glaciers and continental glaciers differ? 7. Describe the mechanisms that enable glaciers to move, and explain why glaciers move. 8. Explain how arêtes, cirques, horns, and hanging valleys form, and how a glacier transforms a V-shaped valley into a U-shaped valley. 9. Describe the various kinds of glacial deposits. Be sure to note the materials from which the deposits are made and the landforms that result from their deposition. 2
10. How many Pleistocene glaciations were identified using the on-land record? How was this number modified with the study of marine sediment? Were there ice ages before the Pleistocene? 11. What are some of the long-term causes that lead to ice ages? What are some short-term causes? 3
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