Assignment

Watch the Pre Lab Video. Read all sections of Lab 9. Answer the following questions: 

Activity 9.1 Deserts Questions 1-2

Activity 9.3 Glaciers and Ice Sheets Questions 1-3

Activity 9.4 Depositional Features of Glaciers Questions 1-4

Lab 9 Videos

Learning Objectives

Each statement represents an important learning objective that relates to one or more sections of this lab. After you complete this exercise you should be able to:

Locate the desert and steppe regions of North America.

Describe the evolution of mountainous desert landforms found in the Basin and Range region of the western United States.

Contrast alpine (valley) glaciers and ice sheets.

Describe the types of glacial deposits.

Identify and explain the formation of depositional features commonly found in areas once covered by ice sheets.

Describe the evolution of glaciated mountainous areas and the erosional features created by alpine glaciation.