Geography Mid Years

Question 1

Scree

Answer 1

Loose rock the fall for the back wall after the glacier has melted.

Question 2

Why does corrie face north?

Answer 2

Because there are the least solar insolation.

Question 3

Moraines

Answer 3

Rocks deposited by glacier at the rock lip

Question 4

How does snow turns into ice

Answer 4

It compacks and compresses to squeeze the air out.

Question 5

How deep does the ice need to be to move down due to gravity

Answer 5

30 meter

Question 6

Freeze thaw

Answer 6

When melt water flow into cracks of the wall, then it freeze and expand to break open the rocks.

Question 7

Plucking

Answer 7

Ice freeze over the surface of loose rocks, then plucks the rocks out when the glacier moves

Question 8

Abrasion

Answer 8

Rocks become entrained in the ice and it can scrap the bottom of the glacier.

Question 9

How does ice move in a glacier? (The name of the circular movement)

Answer 9

Rotational slip

Question 10

Rock lip

Answer 10

In the front of the glacier, ice thins and the erosion rate slows down and it creates a raised lip.

Question 11

Tarn

Answer 11

The melt water that forms a lake from the glacier melting.