Eskers

 Eskers are winding ridges and hills made of sand or gravel. Eskers are formed when glaciers deposit sediment while melting.

In this image is an esker likely formed around the same time as the lake in the image.

 Drumlin

A drumlin is a hill like formation shaped like an inverted spoon. The point of the hill points to the direction that the glacier was moving.

 

The photo (left) shows a small drumlin, in an otherwise flat landscape.

 Terminal Moraine

 Ground Moraine

A terminal moraine is end of a valley carved out by a glacier. Often lakes or "Kettles" are also created within the moraine. 

The terminal moraine in the photo is found in the top left corner.

 Kames

A ground moraine is a formation of rolling hills with few to no ridges. 

The landscape in the image was formed by the melt water of glaciers, creating ground moraines. 

 Kettles

Kames are formed by streams and runoffs from glaciers flowing into lakes and rivers. 

This image shows the banks of a dry kame.

 Flood Plain

Kettles are small lakes formed when moving glaciers carved out the landscape.

The Picture (left) shows a group of kettles formed by a glacier. 

A flood plain is the range in which a river or other body of water floods periodically.

The image (left) shows a flood plain of a river that is still partially flooded 

 
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