11.3B| In Person Lab: Interpreting Glacial Landforms

For this exercise, you'll apply what you've learned about reading and interpreting topographic maps to interpreting landforms created by glacial erosion and deposition on topographic maps. 

Instructions 

1. Save a copy of the  Glacial Landforms Lab. You'll record your answers on this copy. 
2. Read the first page of the lab carefully to remind yourself of the information essential for this lab. 
3. The pre-lab questions contain essential vocabulary and hyperlinks. These will be very useful for completing the lab but doesn't need to be done since you've completed this as a pre-lab assignment already. 
4. Collect each topographic map as instructed and answer all questions for each map.
5. If asked to draw or calculate work, do so on a separate sheet of paper. 
6. Paste a link to your saved copy of the lab as directed.
7. Embed images of your work as directed.  
8. Make a model of an alpine glacial landscape as directed by your instructor.

You have two attempts to embed your drawings and no time limit.  

Time Needed 

About 90 minutes to 2 hours. 

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
• Identify and interpret erosional and depositional glacial landform features in illustrations and photographs