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See if you can answer these questions about the landscape that receding glaciers leave behind.

kettle
terminal moraine
drumlins
eskers
kettle lakes
kames
cirques
horns
an impression made in the ground by an ice block that calved off the front of the glacier
mounds found where the glacier stopped advancing and becan to recede
low, oval mounds of compacted boulder clay molded by the glacier
ridges of gravel and other sediments deposited by glacier meltwater
depressions left from huge ice blocks that later fill with water
steep-sided mounds of sand and gravel deposited by the melting glacier ice
bowl-shaped depressions formed as a glacier plucks and erodes bedrock
sharp-sided angular peaks formed as glaciers move away from a central peak
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