Glaciers (up to 1.2.5)

Name the glacial landform

• Cirque

• Ribbon lake

• Glacial trough

• Crag and tail

Which statements best describes the process of 'plucking'?

• Rubbing against each other

• Ripping of material

• The action of meltwater

Which of the following is created as a result of freeze-thaw weathering?

• Till

• Moraine

• Scree

Which of the following will affect the rate of erosion by a glacier?

• Basal thermal temperature

• Velocity of glacier

• Steepness of relief

• Hardness of rock

Name the process shown.

• Weathering

• Freeze-thaw

• Erosion

• Abrasion

What does the term fluvio-glacial mean?

• Water in the river

• Water from the glacier

• Fluid on the land

• Debris from the glacier

Which glacial process is responsible to striations?

• Plucking

• Abrasion

• Subglacial fluvial erosion

What type of ice mass is shown?

• Cirque glacier

• Sea ice

• Piedmont glacier

What type of ice mass is shown here?

• Valley glacier

• Cirque glacier

• Piedmont glacier

Which of these ice masses is the largest?

• Ice sheet

• Sea ice

• Valley glacier

• Cirque glacier