Geo Assesment

Question 1

What is a cold environment?

Answer 1

A cold environment is cold all year round with ice sheets and glaciers.It has to be bellow 0 degrees.

Question 2

Where are cold environments found around the world?

Answer 2

Russia,Canada,mount killaminjago,the alps,greenland.

Question 3

How does altitude,latitude and/or continentalitymimpact the location of cold environments.

Answer 3

The further away you are from the equator the colder it is, the higher you are from the ground the colder it is.

Question 4

How do glacial budgets impact rates of erosion and the movement of ice?

Answer 4

In summer it is wamer so more ice melts so there is less snow witch means more retreatesnin winter no melt lots of snow glacier advances and erodes.

Question 5

Plucking

Answer 5

Water under the ice gets into the cracks it then freezes sticking to the rock and breaks them away.

Question 6

Abrasion

Answer 6

The rocks drag along the floor and scratch the floor

Question 7

Freeze thaw

Answer 7

Water gets into the cracks and freezes the ice then expands and breaks of the rock.

Question 8

How is a corrie formed?

Answer 8

1.snow builds up in a hollow of a mountain side2.it turnes to ice under its own weight in a rotational movement3.a small corrie full with ice flows out onto the main vally glacier4.abrasion makes it deeper and wider.5the ice melts and makes a tarn.