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WorksheetsYear 9 Glaciers and Industry
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 11mins
Glaciers are commonly found in which areas in the world?
Equatorial regions.
Shallow oceans.
Polar regions.
Mid-latitude regions.
During the last glacial (cold) period of time, the land of the UK was joined with what other area?
Europe
America
Australia
South America
What is the name given to the area where ice melts in a glacier?
Zone of attrition
Zone of wastage
Zone of removal
What two things are transported as a glacier flows down a mountain?
Sediment
Striations
Ice
Bricks
What is the name of this glacial feature?
Moraine
Erratic
Drumlin
Till
A glacier can remove and scrape rocks through several methods. Click on the three correct methods from the list below.
Freeze-thaw weathering
Onion skin weathering
Plucking
Abrasion
Chemical weathering
Study this diagram of a glacier. Moraines are shown. Moraines are found when what happens to sediment in a glacier?
Abrasion
Erosion
Deposition
Accumulation
Here is the same image as before. Name the moraine labelled 'A' on the diagram.
Medial moraine
Lateral moraine
Terminal moraine
Recessional moraine
A carpenter is a job in which industry?
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Quarternary
What industry would a data analyst work in?
Quaternary
Secondary
Primary
Tertiary
Primary industry deals with the extraction, growth or collection of what?
Raw materials
Food
Materials
Manufactured products
Look at the graph of changes in employment structure in the UK. What percentage of jobs were secondary in 1850? Just type the number without the percentage sign.
(a)
You studied about the decline of coal mining in the UK. Why could many of the coal miners who lost their jobs not get another job after the pits closed?
There were rules preventing from them getting new jobs.
They had hoped coal mining would return so waited.
The new jobs were too far away to reach.
There was little to no training to help them work in other types of job.
Belfast's linen industry declined because it was cheaper to make the linen elsewhere. What is the name of this process?
Privatisation
Mechanisation
Globalisation
Conglomeration
How many people were employed by Harland and Wolff at its height?
10,000 people
20,000 people
300,000 people
30,000 people
In order for big ships to reach the heart of Belfast, what was constructed which cut bends out from the River Lagan and also deepened the river?
Belfast Weir
Victoria Channel
Belfast Port
Queen Elizabeth Channel
