Glacier Landforms examples

Question 1

Examples of geomorphological landforms

Answer 1

Carries,arêtes,truncated spurs, hanging valleys, glacial troughs, roches moutonnees, drumlins, erratics, moraines, till plains

Question 2

Examples of periglacial landforms

Answer 2

Patterned ground, ice wedges, pingos, blockfields, solifluction lobes, terracettes, thermokast

Question 3

Examples of fluvioglacial landforms

Answer 3

Meltwater channels, kames, eskers, outwash plains

Question 4

Example of a Corrie

Answer 4

Red tarn - Lake District

Question 5

Example of arête

Answer 5

Striding edge - Lake District

Question 6

Examples of a glacial trough

Answer 6

Glen geusachan - the cairngorms

Question 7

Examples of a hanging valley

Answer 7

Fiordland national park - New Zealand

Question 8

Example of a roche moutonees

Answer 8

Myot hill - falkirk Scotland

Question 9

Example of a drumlin

Answer 9

Eureka drumlin field montana

Question 10

Example of an erratic

Answer 10

Norber erratics Yorkshire dales

Question 11

Example of a morraine

Answer 11

Wrangell- st.Ellis- alaska

Question 12

Example of a till plain

Answer 12

Sas katchewen glacier - alberta

Question 13

Example of a meltwater channel

Answer 13

Ellesmere Island Canada

Question 14

Example of a kame

Answer 14

Kirriemuir - Scotland

Question 15

Example of an esker

Answer 15

The kippet hills esker - aberdeenshire

Question 16

Example of an outwash plain

Answer 16

Rend glacier - alaska

Question 17

Example of patterned ground

Answer 17

Stone rings - svalburd

Question 18

Examples of ice wedges

Answer 18

Banks island - Canada

Question 19

Example of pingos

Answer 19

Pingo national park - Canada

Question 20

Blockfields

Answer 20

broad clay - Lake District

Question 21

Example of a solifluction lobe

Answer 21

Seward pennisula- alaska

Question 22

Example of a terracette

Answer 22

Kingston near lewes- south downs

Question 23

Example of a thermokast

Answer 23

Hudson Bay lowlands- Canada