Lesson 2A.7
2A.7 Glacial erosion landforms Quiz: Pearson Edexcel Geography, Unit 2
20 questions
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The 20 questions
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Which process is a glacial erosional process that involves ice freezing onto and pulling blocks from fractured bedrock?
- Nivation
- Calving
- Plucking
- Abrasion
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Which erosional process is responsible for the smoothing and polishing of bedrock by debris carried in the ice?
- Deflation
- Abrasion
- Solution
- Plucking
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Which erosional process involves heavy ice weight fracturing and breaking underlying bedrock?
- Basal melting
- Abrasion
- Quarrying
- Crushing
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What is the steep-sided, armchair-shaped hollow formed at the head of a glaciated valley?
- Cirque
- Glacial trough
- Roche moutonnée
- Truncated spur
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Which landform is formed when two adjacent cirques erode back until only a sharp ridge remains between them?
- Arete
- Pyramidal peak
- Roche moutonnee
- Knock and lochan
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How is a pyramidal peak formed in an upland glaciated landscape?
- Lateral moraine deposition
- Back-to-back cirque erosion
- Subglacial meltwater scouring
- River channel incision
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Which landform is a U-shaped valley created by a glacier that has widened and deepened a former river valley?
- Ribbon lake
- Sandur
- Glacial trough
- Kettlehole
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Which feature is formed when a glacier truncates a spur of higher ground, leaving a steep-faced ridge?
- Hanging valley
- Truncated spur
- Erratic
- Ribbon lake
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A tributary glacier joins a main glacier and its valley floor ends high above the main trough. What landform is this?
- A drumlin
- A pingo
- A hanging valley
- A cirque
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Which feature forms when a glacier deepens a trough and water fills the hollow left behind in the valley floor?
- Sandur
- Ribbon lake
- Esker
- Kettlehole
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Which landform is typically associated with the scouring of an ice sheet, producing a rounded, smoothed hump of rock?
- Roche moutonnee
- Arete
- Cirque
- Pyramidal peak
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Which feature is formed by differential erosion, with a rounded stoss side and a steep, plucked lee side?
- Moraine ridge
- Hanging valley
- Crag and tail
- Ribbon lake
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Which process creates a knock and lochan landscape on a regional scale?
- Ice sheet scouring
- Periglacial freeze-thaw
- Terminal moraine deposition
- Proglacial meltwater flow
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Which landform features a resistant rock outcrop with a streamlined tail of softer rock or till?
- Roche moutonnée
- Esker
- Crag and tail
- Drumlin
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What name is given to a lake that forms in a glacial cirque hollow?
- Proglacial lake
- Kettle hole
- Tarn
- Ribbon lake
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Which micro-feature is formed on bedrock by glacial abrasion?
- Roches moutonnées
- Truncated spurs
- Hanging valleys
- Striations
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Which landform is found where a glacier has eroded a valley so that a tributary valley is left higher than the main valley?
- Kame terrace
- Knock and lochan
- Hanging valley
- Crag and tail
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Which process forms the long, narrow depressions occupied by ribbon lakes in a glacial trough?
- Freeze-thaw action
- Glacial deposition
- Subaerial weathering
- Differential erosion
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What feature is created when a valley glacier cuts off the ends of interlocking spurs?
- Pyramidal peaks
- Truncated spurs
- Hanging valleys
- Arêtes
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Which landscape feature is formed specifically by ice sheet scouring rather than valley glaciers?
- Pyramidal peak
- Glacial trough
- Hanging valley
- Knock and lochan
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