Lesson 3.1.4.4
3.1.4.4 Glaciated landscape development Quiz: AQA Geography, Unit 1
20 questions
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What is a steep-sided, armchair-shaped hollow found at the head of a glacial valley?
- Arête
- Drumlin
- Corrie
- Roche moutonnée
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What sharp, narrow ridge forms between two adjacent eroding corries?
- Truncated spur
- Arête
- Roche moutonnée
- Pyramidal peak
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What landform is a steep-sided, flat-bottomed U-shaped valley carved by a glacier?
- Glacial trough
- Hanging valley
- Roche moutonnée
- Meltwater channel
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What feature is a tributary valley perched high above the main glacial trough?
- Hanging valley
- Corrie
- Truncated spur
- Glacial trough
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Which landform is formed when a glacier cuts off the ends of interlocking spurs?
- Hanging valley
- Truncated spur
- Roche moutonnée
- Arête
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What asymmetrical rock outcrop has a smooth stoss side and a plucked lee side?
- Erratic
- Roche moutonnée
- Drumlin
- Kame
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Which landform is a streamlined, elongated hill of till aligned with ice flow direction?
- Drumlin
- Kame
- Esker
- Roche moutonnée
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What term describes a large boulder transported by glacial ice and deposited on different bedrock?
- Erratic
- Drumlin
- Pingo
- Kame
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What type of moraine ridge marks the maximum advance of a glacier snout?
- Medial moraine
- Lateral moraine
- Recessional moraine
- Terminal moraine
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Which type of moraine forms from rock debris accumulating along the edge of a glacier?
- Medial moraine
- Recessional moraine
- Lateral moraine
- Terminal moraine
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What extensive, relatively flat landform is created by unsorted sediment deposited beneath an ice sheet?
- Till plain
- Kame terrace
- Outwash plain
- Blockfield
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What fluvioglacial feature is an irregular mound of stratified sand and gravel deposited near ice margins?
- Erratic
- Esker
- Drumlin
- Kame
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What fluvioglacial landform is a winding ridge of meltwater-deposited sand and gravel?
- Esker
- Terminal moraine
- Drumlin
- Kame
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What broad, flat fluvioglacial landform consists of sorted sediment deposited beyond the ice snout?
- Solifluction lobe
- Till plain
- Thermokarst
- Outwash plain
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What periglacial feature forms when frost heave sorts stones into geometric circles or polygons?
- Pingo
- Terracette
- Blockfield
- Patterned ground
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Which periglacial feature forms from meltwater freezing inside thermal contraction cracks in permafrost?
- Solifluction lobe
- Ice wedge
- Pingo
- Blockfield
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Which periglacial landform is an ice-cored earth mound found in permafrost regions?
- Pingo
- Esker
- Roche moutonnée
- Kame
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Which periglacial landform consists of extensive sheets of angular, frost-shattered rock fragments?
- Thermokarst
- Till plain
- Terracette
- Blockfield
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Which tongue-shaped periglacial feature forms as saturated soil moves slowly down a slope?
- Pingo
- Ice wedge
- Esker
- Solifluction lobe
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What is the term for a small step or ledge formed on a hillside by soil creep?
- Blockfield
- Thermokarst
- Solifluction lobe
- Terracette
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