What type of feature is Hatt Hill? Briefly describe how it was formed. Use a red colored pencil or pen and circle several other of these features on the map.

A sinuously curving, narrow ridge of coarse sand and gravel is called an esker. Eskers form along the channel of a meltwater stream that flows beneath a glacier, in an ice tunnel, or between ice walls beneath the glacier. As a glacier retreats, the steep-sided esker is left behind in a pattern roughly parallel to the path of the glacier.
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It is a kame, a pile of glacial debris that accumulated in a depression on top of the glacier that was deposited as the glacier melted.

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The locational setting with certain characteristics that a species lives in is called its _______________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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A ___________________ would lead a large greenhouse gas emitter to reduce emissions by less.

A. flat charge B. higher pollution tax C. lower pollution tax D. pollution tax

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Which of the following create internal waves?

a) wind stress b) turbidity current c) tidal movement d) passing ships e) all of the above

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