What Happens When a Glacier Encounters the Sea or a Lake

question 46

Multiple Choice

What happens when a glacier encounters the sea or a lake?

• A) the ice is more dense than water and so scrapes along the bottom
• B) white icebergs float but blue icebergs sink to the bottom
• C) large blocks of ice collapse off the front of the glacier and become icebergs
• D) rocks released from melted icebergs float on the water surface
• E) all of these

---

Definitions:

Probability Assignment Rule

A principle that assigns probabilities to outcomes of a random experiment, ensuring the sum of the probabilities equals one.

Total Probability Rule

A fundamental rule in probability theory that allows for the calculation of the total probability of an outcome by considering all possible ways that outcome can occur.

Law of Large Numbers

A statistical principle that states that as a sample size grows, its mean gets closer to the average of the whole population.

Blood Type

A method of classifying blood by examining the presence or lack of certain inherited antigenic substances on red blood cell exteriors.