Physical Environments

Named example of a U-shaped Valley?

• Red Tarn

• Glencoe

• Matterhorn

• Trollgarden

Which soil profile has an iron pan?

• Gley

• Brown Earth

• Podsol

What are soil biota?

• Animals in the soil

• Earthworms

• Humus

• Parent material

Which soil horizon contains humus?

• A

• B

• C

• AO

To explain a ribbon lake, what feature do you explain first?

• Corrie

• Terminal Moraine

• Pyramidal Peak

• U-Shaped Valley

What type of feature is the Old Man of Hoy?

• Headland and Bay

• Esker

• Stack

• Drumlin

Drumlins are made up of?

• Unsorted glacial deposits

• Till

• Boulder clay

• Sorted glacial deposits

Terminal moraines mark the furthest point reached by an ice sheet or a glacier

• True

• False

What are the processes of glacial erosion?

• Abrasion

• Plucking

• Corrosion

• Freeze thaw weathering

A pyramidal peak is formed by

• 2 corries

• 3 or more corries

• 2 eskers

• 3 or more eskers