Multiple choice

Gravel, snd and clay carried by melting water from glaciers deposited over large areas

  1. moraines

  2. terminus

  3. outwash plains

  4. glacier
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Outwash plains are broad, flat areas formed by sediment deposited by meltwater streams flowing from the front of a glacier. Moraines are ridges of unsorted debris deposited directly by glacial ice, not by meltwater.

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