Erosion

Question 1

What is an ice age?

Answer 1

A period when several continents are covered by ice sheets last ice age affecting Ireland ended 12,000 years ago ago

Question 2

What is the process of erosion?

Answer 2

Plucking= when water and in a glacier melts and then refreezes around it rock it then lifts and transports pieces of rocks as the glacier moves
Abrasion = rock with the glacier scrapes the surface rock

Question 3

What is a corrie?

Answer 3

An armchair shaped hollow

Question 4

What is an arete?

Answer 4

Jagged ridges, which is formed when two corries Lye side-by-side

Question 5

What is a pyramidal peak?

Answer 5

When three or more corries form along the sides of the same mountain

Question 6

What is a ribbon lake?

Answer 6

Along narrow lake on the floor of a U-shaped valley

Question 7

What is a hanging valley?

Answer 7

Smaller glaciated valley

Question 8

What is a fjord?

Answer 8

Glacier melts seawater rushes into the flood of the valley

Question 9

What is a U-shaped valley?

Answer 9

Has a wide flat floor and steep sides