Geography

Question 1

What is a cold enviroment? What might be there?

Answer 1

An area of land always covered by ice. It may have glaciers, ice sheets and frozen rock or soil.

Question 2

Ablation

Answer 2

Zone with outputs into the glacial budget

Question 3

Accumulation

Answer 3

Glaciers advance

Question 4

Continentality

Answer 4

The distance from the sea or ocean

Question 5

Altitude

Answer 5

Height above sea level

Question 6

glacial retreat

Answer 6

Ablation > Accumulation. Glacier shrinks

Question 7

glacial advance

Answer 7

Accumulation> Ablation. Glacier grows

Question 8

U-shaped valleys

Answer 8

U-shaped valleys: a valley with steep sides and a wide, flat base.

Question 9

Trough

Answer 9

Long, U-shaped valley with flat floors and steep sides

Question 10

Continentality

Answer 10

Distance from the ocean or sea.

Question 11

Misfit river

Answer 11

A river in a valley it
didn’t erode

Question 12

Glacier

Answer 12

Large body of ice that moves under its own weight

Question 13

Ordnance Survey

Answer 13

UK mapping agency, produce scaled OS maps

Question 14

Latitude

Answer 14

Distance from the equator

Question 15

Grid reference

Answer 15

4 or 6 figure reference used to find a place

Question 16

Plucking

Answer 16

Meltwater at the base of the glacier freezers. Glacier moves, rock pulled up

Question 17

Map symbols

Answer 17

An image or letters used on maps to show a specific feature

Question 18

Erosion

Answer 18

Wearing away and removal of material

Question 19

Sea level rise

Answer 19

Increased sea levels. With climate change, sea levels are rising

Question 20

Thermal expansion

Answer 20

Change of water volume with heat.

Question 21

Freeze thaw weathering

Answer 21

Water gets into cracks in the rocks freezes and expands

Question 22

Tarn

Answer 22

Deep lake at the base of a corrie filled with water

Question 23

Basal sliding

Answer 23

Glacier moving over the bed with melt water acting as a lubricant

Question 24

Abrasion

Answer 24

Rocks in the glacier scrape over the land and wear it away

Question 25

Corrie? Where on the mountain?

Answer 25

A deep arm chair shaped hollow found in the side of a mountain, The north face

Question 26

Abraded Man

Answer 26

Old Harry

Question 27

Locations of cold environments usually depend on either latitude, altitude, or continentality. Are cold environments usually found in high latitudes or low latitudes?

Answer 27

High latitudes

Question 28

Locations of cold environments usually depend on either latitude, altitude, or continentality. Are cold environments usually found in high altitudes or low altitudes?

Answer 28

High altitudes

Question 29

There is a cold environment on every continent. (TRUE/False)

Answer 29

True

Question 30

Glaciers are a system with inputs, processes and outputs. It is called...

Answer 30

A Glacial budget

Question 31

Where there are inputs into the glacial budget

Answer 31

Accumulation

Question 32

Where there are outputs from the glacial budget

Answer 32

Ablation

Question 33

What might happen in the zone of ablation

Answer 33

Melting due to temperature rise

Question 34

Shape of a glacial valley

Answer 34

U shaped valleys with steep sides, a wide valley floor. It flows in a straight shape.

Question 35

We can see glacial features on OS maps. How could you see steep land on an OS map?

Answer 35

The contour lines are close together

Question 36

To find a grid reference you follow what rule.

Answer 36

Along the corridor, up the stair

Question 37

Where is the majoity (69%) of the world's fresh water held

Answer 37

In ice

Question 38

What is the percentage of the fresh water held in ice?

Answer 38

69%

Question 39

Ice is melting faster than ever. What ice melt is going to add more to the rising sealevels?

Answer 39

Glacier Ice

Question 40

Read Filippo's example of a summary the fomation of a corrie in 3 key steps.

Answer 40

Snow builds up in a hollow on the side of the mountain and forms a glacier. The glacier erodes downwards using processes such as abrasion (using rocks to scrape and erode), plucking (breaking off chunks of rock from the mountain) and freeze-thaw (when meltwater gets into cracks, freezes and expands to weaken the rock). The glacier then eventually melts leaving behind an armchair-shaped corrie with a steep back wall and a tarn in the middle.

Question 41

Name 4 Cold Environments

Answer 41

Arctic Antartica Kilamanjaro, Russia, Iceland, Greenland and more