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WorksheetsGlacial landforms - Erosion & Deposition
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
Identify the glacial landform feature
Fissures
Striations
Corrie
Glacial till
Describe the process of plucking
Rocks become frozen into the bottom and sides of a glacier, and as the glacier moves downhill it takes the rocks frozen into the glacier with it
Deep grooves in surface rocks, made by the sharp edges of stones carried at the base of a glacier
A body of land-based ice that moves under its own weight due to gravity
The process of rocks breaking up because of repeated freezing and thawing of water within cracks
What is an arête?
A steep-sided hollow at the head of a valley or on a mountainside
A glacial horn
A sharp mountain ridge
A pre-glacial river
What is the term used for the rocks deposited by a glacier?
Compressed ice
Moraines
Eratics
Glacial till
What are eratics?
Pebbles
Stones or rocks
A feature of glacial landforms
Another word for drumlins
Where does deposition occur?
The downstream end of a glacier
Around the lateral moraine
Behind a medial moraine
The upstream end of a glacier
Define the term 'moraine'
A large mass of scree
A mass of glacial till that is deposited by a glacier
A steep-sided, wide and flat-bottomed valley
A synonym for an arête
How far can eratics be carried?
Thousands of kilometres
Thousands of miles
Hundreds of metres
Hundreds of kilometres
What is a drumlin's steep end called?
Scree
Stoss end
Lee slope
Skeiðarárjökull
What is the definition for terminal moraines?
A moraine found deposited along the sides of a glacier
A moraine found at the snout of a glacier
A moraine found in the junction between two glaciers
A big part of a glacier that broke off to create a bumpy and chaotic ground
