Key Termsi

Question 1

Cold environment

Answer 1

Area of land permanently covered by ice

Question 2

Altitude

Answer 2

Height above sea level

Question 3

Latitude

Answer 3

Distance from the equator

Question 4

Glacier

Answer 4

Large body of ice that moves under its own weight

Question 5

Continentality

Answer 5

Distance from the ocean or sea

Question 6

Glacial retreat

Answer 6

The ablation is larger than the accumilation, glacier shrinks

Question 7

Glacial advance

Answer 7

Accumilation is greater than ablation, glacier grows

Question 8

Acumilation

Answer 8

Zones where there are inputs to the glacial buget

Question 9

Ablation

Answer 9

Zones where there are outputs from the glacial buget

Question 10

Basal sliding

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Erosion

Answer 11

Wearing away and removal of materials

Question 12

Abrasion

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Plucking

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Freeze thaw weathering

Answer 14

Water gets into cracks in the rocks, the water freezes and crack expand

Question 15

Corries

Answer 15

A deep armchair shape hollow in the side of a mountain

Question 16

Tarn

Answer 16

Deep lake at the base of the corrie filled with meltwater

Question 17

U shaped valleys

Answer 17

A valley with steep sides but a flat base

Question 18

Trough

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Misfit river

Answer 19

A river in a valley that it didn’t erode

Question 20

Ordanance Survey

Answer 20

UK mapping system that produce OS maps

Question 21

Grid reference

Answer 21

4 or 6 figure efrence used to find places on OS maps

Question 22

Map symbols

Answer 22

An image with letters on used to label places on maps

Question 23

Thermal expansion

Answer 23

Change of water volume with heat