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🏔️ Glacial Landscapes – Year 8
Geography · Year 8 (KS3) — glacial erosion and deposition, corries, arêtes, U-shaped valleys and moraines
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Approximately when did the last glacial period end in Britain, as the ice sheets melted away?
Around 10,000–12,000 years ago
Around 1,000 years ago
Around 1 million years ago
Around 65 million years ago
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Freeze-thaw weathering breaks rock apart. What makes this process work?
Rock shrinks in cold weather
Ice shrinks when it forms
Water expands when it freezes
Rain dissolves the rock
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A river valley is V-shaped. What shape does a glacier erode it into?
A twisting, narrow gorge
A U-shape with steep sides
A wide, shallow bowl
A deeper, narrower V-shape
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Rocks frozen into the base of a glacier scrape the bedrock like sandpaper. What is this erosion process called?
Freeze-thaw weathering
Abrasion
Plucking
Solution
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Which glacial landform is an armchair-shaped hollow high on a mountainside?
Drumlin
ArĂŞte
Corrie
Truncated spur
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Two corries erode backwards towards each other on opposite sides of a mountain. What landform forms between them?
A hanging valley
A pyramidal peak
An arĂŞte
A ribbon lake
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Striding Edge is a famous glacial arĂŞte. In which UK national park is it found?
Snowdonia (Eryri)
The Cairngorms
The Peak District
The Lake District
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Which landform is created when three or more corries erode backwards around a single mountain top?
A pyramidal peak
A U-shaped valley
A roche moutonnée
An arĂŞte
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Which type of moraine forms a ridge across a valley, marking the furthest point a glacier reached?
Medial moraine
Lateral moraine
Terminal moraine
Ground moraine
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A drumlin is an egg-shaped hill of glacial till. In which direction does its steep, blunt end point?
Towards where the ice moved to
Towards the valley sides
Towards where the ice came from
Downhill towards the sea
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