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Q: How were the Great Lakes affected by glaciation?
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How can you use the term glaciation in a sentence about the great lakes?

The Great lakes went through glaciation many thousands of years ago.


How is the origin of the great lakes and yosemite valley similar?

Glaciation


Are the great lakes a result of plate tectonics?

The Great Lakes are more the result of glaciation than plate tectonics.


How did glaciers help form the great lakes st Lawrence lowlands?

Glaciation created a rolling landscape on the Great Lakes portion of the lowlands


How did glacial ice impact the North American landscape?

Among its many influences, glaciation formed the Great Lakes and Long Island (NY state).


What physiographic region was most affected by glaciation?

The Canadian Shield


An extensive late Paleozoic glaciation affected southern India southern Africa and southeastern South America?

An extensive, late Paleozoic glaciation affected southern India, southern Africa and southeastern South America.


How did glacial ice the north America landscape?

The Great Lakes and the Finger Lakes were carved by ice glaciation in the valleys. Lakes in Minnesota and Wisconsin were gouged out by glaciers and later filled with water from melting glaciers. Niagara falls was formed when the glaciers created dams on the rivers and changed the flow.


What physiographic region was most affected by glaciation--massive continental glaciers?

The Canadian shield


How did the ice age glaciers affect physical features of north America?

Glaciers changed the face of North America with the following effects:An ice sheet covered most of Canada.The southwest received heavy rains.


Which Louisiana region was most affected by the glaciation of the last ice age?

mississippi floodplain region


Does the great lakes affect Michigan climates?

yes. winds coming in over the lakes chill because of the cold water, southern winds aren't really affected.