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National 5 - Glaciation Quiz
National 5 - Glaciation Quiz
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Revise glacial features, OS map skills and land use conflicts
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corrie make good...
footpaths
reservoirs
ski slopes
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There are two types of erosion - plucking and abrasion. Which one is similar to sandpaper?
abrasion
plucking
3
What is a glacier?
a slow moving river of ice
a mixture of snow and rocks
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Most glaciers form during an ice-age. What is an ice-age?
Whole world is plunged into a cooler period of weather
A childrens animation movie
Ice Age is a series of advances and retreats of the icecaps.
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three water features are found in a u-shape valley...
ribbon lack, mis-fit stream, waterfall
loch, mis-fit stream, rapids
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freeze-thaw is when...
rocks get scraped along bottom of glacier, removing bedrock
rocks bounce off landscape
meltwater freeze in a crack, expands, rocks get shattered
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a valley above the main u-shape valley is called?
waterfall
hanging valley
tributary glacier
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which side of the mountain do corries form in?
south facing slope
west facing slope
north facing slope
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the water feature sometimes found in a corrie is called...
lake
corrie lochan
backwall
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Describe plucking...
rainwater shatters rocks to form scree
ice freezes onto cracks-glacier advances, rock are plucked
rocks are removed from the landscape
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The last ice-age started 1.8 million years ago - but when did it end?
5 years ago
11,700 years ago
It hasn't ended
