KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -A lateral moraine forms along the sides of a glacier. As the glacier scrapes along, it tears off rock and soil from both sides of its path. This material is deposited as lateral moraine at the top of the glacier’s edges. Lateral moraines are usually found in matching ridges on either side of the glacier.

Detailed explanation-2: -Moraines consist of loose sediment and rock debris deposited by glacier ice, known as till. They may also contain slope, fluvial, lake and marine sediments if such material is present at the glacier margin, where it may be incorporated into glacial ice during a glacier advance, or deformed by glacier movement4, 5.

Detailed explanation-3: -Moraines. A moraine is a ridge-shaped mound of till that forms as a glacier recedes. There are different types of moraines that are named depending on which part of the glacier the sediment comes from. A terminal moraine is a moraine that forms at the edge of a glacier’s farthest extent.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sediments transported and deposited by glacial ice are known as till.

Detailed explanation-5: -End moraines, or terminal moraines, are ridges of unconsolidated debris deposited at the snout or end of the glacier. They usually reflect the shape of the glacier’s terminus. Glaciers act much like a conveyor belt, carrying debris from the top of the glacier to the bottom where it deposits it in end moraines.