Glaciation Features

Which of these is the odd one out.

• Plucking

• Solution

• Freeze Thaw Action

• Abrasion

Plucking tends to make the back wall..

• Wider

• Steeper

• Deeper

• Smoother

An example of an Arete is ..

• GlenCoe

• Loch Lomond

• Striding Edge

• Matterhorn

Our named example of a U-Shaped Valley is..

Which of these processes is responsible for jagged/sharp peaks.

• Abrasion

• Plucking

• FreezeThaw Action

• Hydraulic Action

What is the 2 conditions marks

• Snow accumulates in north/north east facing hollows when more snow falls in winter than melts in the summer.

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  The snow mounts up and is compressed into complete ice.

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  The snow mounts up and is compressed into neve and eventually into ice forming a glacier.

• Snow accumulates in South east facing hollows when more snow falls in winter than melts in the summer.

Which of these features is associated with truncated spurs.

• Arete

• Corrie

• U shaped Valley

• Pyramidal Peak

Which of these despositional features marks the furthest point a glacier reaches.

• Esker

• Terminal Moraine

• Drumlin

Which of these is another name for moraine.

What do you often find running along a U-Shaped Valley Floor.

• Rocks

• Misfit Stream

• Huge Loch