Glaciation
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Glacial Processes:
1. Frost Shattering
3. Abrasion
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2. Plucking
Just like with coasts and rivers, glaciers also have the ability to erode, transport and deposit material.
This creates glacial landforms/ features. Landforms of erosion include: Cirques (corries) Arêtes Pyramidal Peaks U-shaped Valley Hanging Valley Truncated Spur Landforms of Deposition include: Moraines Drumlins An Esker is a landform of deposition created by the glacier's meltwater stream. |
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Test
- What is a glacier.
- How does a glacier change the physical landscape of an area?
- Name 2 processes of glacial erosion-explain each one. (4)
- The birthplace of a glacier is known by what 2 names? (2)
- What is a tarn?
- What do you call the narrow ridges found on the slopes of a pyramidal peak?
- Explain how this landform is formed. (4)
- Draw a labelled diagram of this landform. (3)
- After glaciation, interlocking spurs become what?
- What is the name of the lake found in a U-shaped valley. Why is it called this? (2)
- What is a Fjord?
- Which country's coastline is made up of thousands of Fjords?
- Give an example of an erratic you studied. What makes it "erratic"? (2)
- Name 4 types of morraine and explain where you would find each one. (4)
- Where would you find a "swarm" in Ireland?
- Draw and label a landform of deposition. (3)
- What is a fluvio-glacial landform made by? Give an example. (2)
- A river is to floodplains as a glacier is to _________?
- What is different is the makeup of an esker vs a morraine? (2)