A rounded hill of gravel and sand deposited by meltwater is a _____, a distinctive and common landform of stagnant ice.

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Kames are mounds of sand and gravel deposited by meltwater from glaciers or ice sheets, often found in areas of stagnant ice, making them a distinctive landform associated with glacial environments. Eskers are long, winding ridges of sand and gravel also formed by meltwater, but they are deposited in subglacial tunnels. Drumlins are streamlined hills of glacial till shaped by the movement of ice, and kettles are depressions left behind after a block of ice melts.

A Rounded Hill of Gravel and Sand Deposited by Meltwater