WorksheetsGlacial Features and Processes Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 4mins
What is the name of the armchair shaped hollow created by glacial erosion on a mountain side?
U-Shaped Valley
Arete
Corrie
Pyramidal Peak
Where 2 corries develop side by side, the glaciers erode the rock leaving a knife-like edge. What is this called?
A pyramidal peak
Corrie
Arete
A tarn
What does plucking mean?
Where ice freezes onto rock and rips it away leaving it steep and jagged
Where material in the ice grinds away the rock like sandpaper making it wider and deeper
When water enters cracks in the rock, freezes, then expands to break the rock apart
A corrie has 3 distinct features. What are these?
A steep back wall, gentle sides and ice in the hollow.
A flat base, a snout and a steep back wall.
A snout, gentle sides and a lip.
A steep back wall, an over-deepened hollow and a lip.
What does abrasion mean?
Where ice freezes onto rock and rips it away leaving it steep and jagged
Where material in the ice grinds away the rock like sandpaper making it wider and deeper
When water enters cracks in the rock, freezes, then expands to break the rock apart
Identify the landform in the picture created by a glacier.
Arete
Corrie
U-Shaped Valley
Truncated Spur
There are three main types of glacial erosion. What are these?
Attrition, abrasion and freeze-thaw
Plucking, abrasion and freeze thaw.
Picking, freeze-thaw and abrasion
Freeze-thaw, puckering and abrasion
What is the name of the arete near Helvellyn in the lake District?
Straddling Edge
Striation Edge
Stepping Edge
Striding Edge
What glacial landform is this?
Waterfall
U-shaped Valley
Arete
Ribbon Lake
Which description best applies to an arete?
A tributary valley left perched above a main valley
The over-deepened valley floor
A knife edge ridge between two corries
Interlocking spurs removed by a valley glacier
Which image shows a U-Shaped Valley?
Which image shows a pyramidal peak?
Which of the following animal fossils have been found in London?
Polar bear
Woolly rhinoceros
Wooly mammoth
All of the above
What does freeze thaw action mean?
Where ice freezes onto rock and rips it away leaving it steep and jagged
Where material in the ice grinds away the rock like sandpaper making it wider and deeper
When water enters cracks in the rock, freezes, then expands to break the rock apart
