Summary

Goals

  • Knowing what factors caused the ice ages.
  • Knowing what the last Ice Age was like.
  • Being able to recongize different signs of the last Ice Age.
  • Being able to describe how different structures formed as a result of glacial movement.

Summary

  • Ice ages are long periods of time during which the planet's surface is covered in ice..
  • Glacialized rocks, drumlins, and till are the result of advancing glacial ice.
  • Eskers, giant's cauldrons, kettles, and ridges are the result of retreating and melting glacial ice. 
  • Key words: ice age, the Quarternary glaciation, till, drumlin, glacialized rock, erratic boulder, kettle lake, esker, ridge, giant's cauldron, clay.