Locate and identify by name a prominent esker 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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A) an oxidizing agent B) a reducing agent C) an acid D) a base

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When a wave reaches shore it piles a mass of water against the coast because water moves slowly

A) towards the poles. B) towards the equator. C) in the direction of wave movement. D) away from the shoreline.

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