12.9| Interpreting Glacial Landforms in Yosemite National Park

In this exercise, you will identify glacial landforms in Yosemite National Park here in California. The preceding exercises, the assigned readings, and the lecture should have you prepared for this assignment. Note that you'll need the browser version of Google Earth for this exercise. 

Instructions

Carefully study each illustration and read each question, then choose or compose the best answer. You have 3 attempts and no time limit.

Learning Objectives 

• Describe the role weathering, mass wasting, and erosion play in shaping Earth's surface and can provide and/or identify examples of each of these processes
• Differentiate between constructive and destructive geologic processes, explain the energy driving these processes, and can identify examples of each
• Identify and interpret erosional and depositional glacial landform features in illustrations, photographs, and topographic maps