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Glaciation

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What term is used for pieces of rock being scratched by a glacier?

a)

Attrition

b)

Abrasion

c)

Abstract

d)

Attention

2.

What term is used for pieces of rock taken away by glacier?

a)

Picking

b)

Puking

c)

Plucking

d)

Piloting

3.

What causes an ice age?

a)

Ocean Currents

b)

Earthquake

c)

Tsunamis

d)

Cyclone

4.

What is a cirque?

a)

Sea

b)

Lagoon

c)

Basin-shaped hollow

d)

Lake

5.

An example of the Pyramidal Peak?

a)

Mount Blanc

b)

Caurrantoohill

c)

Matterhorn

d)

Lyskamm

6.

What is a moraine?

a)

Type of Beach

b)

Type of Fish

c)

Deposited material by a Glacier

d)

Eroded material by a Glacier

7.

Match the following Landforms of Glacial Deposition

a)

Large Boulders

1.

Erratics

b)

Oval Shaped Hills

2.

Drumlins

c)

Lowland area covered in boulders

3.

Boulder Clay Plains

d)

Deposited Material

4.

Moraine

e)

Long Narrow Ridge (Sand & Gravel)

5.

Eskers

8.

​ ​ (a)   and ​ (b)   are some of the benefits of glaciation

Choose from the below words
Tourism
Agriculture
Flooding
Sports
War
Technology
9.

At the end of the Ice Age, Global Temperatures begin to ​ (a)   and the glaciers start to ​ (b)  

Choose from the below words
rise
fall 
jump
slide
stand
melt
freeze
10.

The Earth's orbit can be circular and what other shape?

(a)