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Quiz

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1. True or False, The study of the internal dynamics and effects of glaciers is called glaciology.

TRUE
FALSE

2. The cryosphere is likely to include which of the following?

water in solid form
sea ice
rain
lake ice
river ice
snow cover
glaciers
ice caps
ice sheets

3. The science of the behavior of frozen snow is called

4. Chemistry phenomena associated with glaciology are

water
carbon dioxide
silicates
plastic
organic compounds
the human genome

5. Complete the text:

Satellite imagery and data from ground surveys are used to reconstruct the pattern of the principal longitudinal and features produced on a continent-wide scale by the last sheets in Europe and .

6. Complete the text:

Match up the glacial object with each of the possibilities below:
ice cap - A
optical characteristics of sediment suspensions - B
water in solid form - C
behavior of frozen snow - D
ice sheets - E
dirt cones - F
cryopediology .
lake Veitastrondsvatn .
Skaftárjökull .
cryosphere .
Antarctica and Greenland
Vatnajökull, Iceland .

7. Complete the text:

Match up the object with the image:
melting permafrost - A
Vatnajökull, Iceland - B
the Cryosphere - C
Antarctica - D
pancake ice - E
uplift - F
Duvanny yar cliff.jpe.jpeg
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Scandiso.gif
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Cryosphere Fuller Projection.png
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Seaice 04.jpg
Vatnajökull.jpeg
.
Antarctica 6400px from Blue Marble.jpg
.

8. Yes or No, Looks like a mountain glacier and has active flow; usually includes a poorly sorted mess of rocks and fine material; may include: (1) interstitial ice a meter or so below the surface (“ice-cemented”), (2) a buried core of ice (“ice-cored”), and/or (3) rock debris from avalanching snow and rock is a rock glacier?

No
Yes

9. Which of the following is not a glacier?

Vatnajökull, Iceland
the last ice sheets in Europe and North America
the cryosphere
an abyssal plain
frozen snow
ice sheets are in Antarctica and Greenland

10. True or False, During the last glacial period at Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) the Laurentide ice sheet covered much of North America.

TRUE
FALSE

11. Which of the following is not a characteristic of ice?

an albedo as high as 80%
thin water frost deposits
ice knobs
tidal heating events
surface is composed of water ice
blue

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Research

Hypothesis:

  1. There are near or subsurface glaciers on Mars.

Control groups

This is an image of a Lewis rat. Credit: Charles River Laboratories.

The findings demonstrate a statistically systematic change from the status quo or the control group.

“In the design of experiments, treatments [or special properties or characteristics] are applied to [or observed in] experimental units in the treatment group(s).[1] In comparative experiments, members of the complementary group, the control group, receive either no treatment or a standard treatment.[2]"[3]

Proof of concept

Def. a “short and/or incomplete realization of a certain method or idea to demonstrate its feasibility"[4] is called a proof of concept.

Def. evidence that demonstrates that a concept is possible is called proof of concept.

The proof-of-concept structure consists of

  1. background,
  2. procedures,
  3. findings, and
  4. interpretation.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Klaus Hinkelmann, Oscar Kempthorne (2008). Design and Analysis of Experiments, Volume I: Introduction to Experimental Design (2nd ed.). Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-72756-9. http://books.google.com/?id=T3wWj2kVYZgC&printsec=frontcover.
  2. ↑ R. A. Bailey (2008). Design of comparative experiments. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-68357-9. http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521683579.
  3. ↑ "Treatment and control groups, In: Wikipedia". San Francisco, California: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. May 18, 2012. Retrieved 2012-05-31.
  4. ↑ "proof of concept, In: Wiktionary". San Francisco, California: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. November 10, 2012. Retrieved 2013-01-13.
  5. ↑ Ginger Lehrman and Ian B Hogue, Sarah Palmer, Cheryl Jennings, Celsa A Spina, Ann Wiegand, Alan L Landay, Robert W Coombs, Douglas D Richman, John W Mellors, John M Coffin, Ronald J Bosch, David M Margolis (August 13, 2005). "Depletion of latent HIV-1 infection in vivo: a proof-of-concept study". Lancet 366 (9485): 549-55. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67098-5. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1894952/. Retrieved 2012-05-09.

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