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Year 9 Glaciation Quiz

Quiz by Emily

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  • Q1
    1) What is a glacier?
    A frozen river
    A large mass of ice often shaped like a river that flows very slowly, under the force of gravity
    A thick layer of ice that covers more than 50,000 sq km. It completely covers the landscape including mountains and valleys
    30s
  • Q2
    2) Which of the following is one of the two main ways ice carries out erosion?
    Corrosion
    Abrasion
    Hydraulic action
    30s
  • Q3
    3) What process has shattered the jagged rocks which are found in glaciated areas?
    Plucking
    Abrasion
    Freeze-thaw weathering
    30s
  • Q4
    4) What process is when ice freezes on to a rock, then when the ice moves again it pulls the rock with it.
    Abrasion
    Plucking
    Freeze-thaw Weathering
    30s
  • Q5
    5) What is the name of the glacial landform which is a circular, armchair-shaped hollow cut into rock by ice during glaciation?
    Pyramidal Peak
    Corrie
    Arête
    30s
  • Q6
    6) What is the name of the glacial landform created when two corries form next to each other and leave a sharp ridge between them?
    Drumlin
    Arête
    Pyramidal Peak
    30s
  • Q7
    7) What are truncated spurs?
    Another name for a U-shape valley
    Where a glacier has eroded and cut off interlocking spurs
    The name given for a glacial lake in the middle of a corrie
    30s
  • Q8
    8) When does deposition mainly occur?
    When glaciers spread out
    When ice melts
    When it stops snowing
    30s
  • Q9
    9) What is the name for the deposition of material down the side of a glacier?
    Terminal Moraine
    Medial Moraine
    Lateral Moraine
    30s
  • Q10
    10) When a glacier is moving slowly, it doesn’t have very much energy and so it can’t erode and transport material-it can only shape the clay underneath it, making smooth hills that look like eggs. What are these hills called?
    Till
    Drumlin
    Debris
    30s

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