Lesson 2A.3
2A.3 Periglacial processes and landscapes Quiz: Pearson Edexcel Geography, Unit 2
20 questions
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The 20 questions
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Which process involves water freezing and expanding within rock joints?
- Solifluction
- Nivation
- Frost heave
- Freeze-thaw weathering
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How many consecutive years must ground remain frozen to be defined as permafrost?
- Ten years
- Five years
- One year
- Two years
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Which term describes unbroken permafrost covering virtually all underlying ground?
- Discontinuous
- Relict
- Continuous
- Sporadic
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Which process involves the downslope movement of saturated soil over frozen ground?
- Solifluction
- Nivation
- Pingo growth
- Frost heave
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Which process combines freeze-thaw weathering and meltwater erosion beneath snow patches?
- Solifluction
- Nivation
- Abrasion
- Frost heave
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Which periglacial landform is formed when ice in the ground expands and lifts the surface?
- A kame
- An esker
- A drumlin
- A pingo
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Which periglacial landform forms as thermal contraction cracks fill with meltwater and ice in polygonal patterns?
- Roches moutonnees
- Kettleholes
- Crag and tail
- Ice wedges
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Which material is characteristic of periglacial deposits when wind blows fine dust from glacial outwash plains?
- Boulder clay
- Loess
- Sandur
- Till
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Which periglacial landform features stone polygons or stripes created by frost sorting?
- Blockfields
- Patterned ground
- Pingos
- Ice wedges
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Which ecosystem type dominates northern Russia and Canada above permafrost?
- Savanna
- Taiga
- Steppe
- Tundra
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Which process involves slow downhill soil flow over an impermeable frozen layer?
- Solifluction
- Plucking
- Abrasion
- Internal deformation
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Which weathering process produces angular rock debris in periglacial environments?
- Oxidation
- Hydrolysis
- Freeze-thaw
- Carbonation
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Which landform develops when thermal contraction cracks fill with freezing meltwater?
- Ice wedge
- Pingo
- Kame
- Roche moutonnée
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Which ice-cored, dome-shaped mound is a distinctive periglacial landform?
- Pingo
- Drumlin
- Moraine
- Esker
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During summer thaw, soil movement on tundra slopes is mainly driven by which process?
- Glacial surge
- Frost heave
- Nivation
- Solifluction
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What is the surface layer of soil that thaws during summer in periglacial areas called?
- Cryoturbation layer
- Talik
- Active layer
- Permafrost table
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What forms the central core inside a pingo hill?
- Gravel
- Bedrock
- Silt
- Ice
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Permafrost, solifluction, and ice wedges are characteristic of which type of environment?
- Glacial
- Arid
- Periglacial
- Temperate
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Unlike glacial environments, periglacial environments are defined by the presence of what?
- Glacial ice
- U-shaped valleys
- Permafrost
- Cirques
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Which process lifts soil particles vertically as ground moisture freezes into ice lenses?
- Frost heave
- Solifluction
- Nivation
- Freeze-thaw
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