Geography, Iceland

Question 1

Sparsely populated

Answer 1

Very few people per km2

Question 2

Glacier

Answer 2

A large, thick ice mass formed by many years of snowfall that is compressed (squashed)

Question 3

Tundra

Answer 3

A treeless biome which is almost permanently frozen.

Question 4

Basalt

Answer 4

A black volcanic rock

Question 5

Constructive plate margin

Answer 5

Where two tectonic plates move apart.

Question 6

Magma

Answer 6

Molten rock underground (lava on the surface).

Question 7

Shield volcano

Answer 7

A wide and low volcano formed by highly fluid lava.

Question 8

Archipelago

Answer 8

A group of islands.

Question 9

Food chain

Answer 9

A diagram which shows what organisms eat.

Question 10

Freeze-thaw weathering

Answer 10

The breaking up of rock as water in cracks expands and contracts.

Question 11

Zone of accumulation

Answer 11

Where snow falls and a glacier is formed.

Question 12

Zone of ablation

Answer 12

The end of a glacier, where it melts.

Question 13

Plucking

Answer 13

A type of erosion which occurs at the bottom of the glacier as rock is picked up by the ice.

Question 13

Moraine

Answer 13

A pile of sediment and rock deposited by a glacier.

Question 14

Till

Answer 14

Unsorted material which has been deposited by a glacier.

Question 15

Corrie

Answer 15

A large hollowed-out depression (dip) found on the upper slopes of glaciated valleys.

Question 16

Hanging valley

Answer 16

A smaller valley that joins the deeper U-shaped valley.

Question 17

Geothermal energy

Answer 17

Energy made using the heat of magma near the surface.

Question 18

Renewable

Answer 18

Will not run out.

Question 19

Fetch

Answer 19

The distance the wind travels across water.