Erosional Glacier Landforms

Question 0

Erosion of ice sheets: Streamlined landscape -

Answer 0

Area composed of smoothed forms.

Question 1

Erosion of ice sheets: Drumlins -

Answer 1

Streamlined hills made of glacier deposits, rather than solid rock.

Question 2

Erosion of ice sheets: Areas glaciated by

Answer 2

Ice sheets show striations on bedrock surfaces.

Question 3

Cirques:

Answer 3

Bowl-shaped depressions on mountain sides, produced by erosion at the head of the glacier. Frost shattering attacks rock and removes debris.

Question 4

Small lake / Tarn:

Answer 4

Forms once a glacier is removed from a cirque.

Question 5

Horn:

Answer 5

Form when several cirques meet to form a pyramid shaped peak.

Question 6

Aretes:

Answer 6

Two adjacent cirques meet to form jagged linear ridges.

Question 7

Glacial trough valleys:

Answer 7

U-shaped with a flat floor and steep sides.

Question 8

Hanging valleys:

Answer 8

Once ice has retreated, tributaries sit high above the main valley floor.

Question 9

Fjords: Extend inland for

Answer 9

10-100km’s

Question 10

Fjords: Are deep valley troughs, resulting from

Answer 10

Glacier erosion from thick and fast flowing ice.

Question 11

Fjords: Have steep, high

Answer 11

Relief coastlines where glaciers flow into the sea.

Question 12

Talus:

Answer 12

Rock fragments that accumulate at the base of the steep slopes.