Is this area well drained or poorly drained and swampy? Explain your answer.

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.
What will be an ideal response?


Poorly drained, as shown by the many swamps.

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