Practice Questions 🏋️

Question 1

What is a cold enviroment

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Are cold environments usually found in high latitudes or low latitudes?

Answer 2

High latitudes

Question 3

Are cold environments usually found in high altitudes or low altitudes?

Answer 3

High altitudes

Question 4

Is there a cold enviroment in every continent?

Answer 4

Yes

Question 5

Glaciers are a system with inputs, outputs and processes. What is this known as?

Answer 5

Glacial budget 🧊📈📉

Question 6

What is the definiton of the accumulation zone?

Answer 6

Where there are inputs into the glacial budget 🧊📉📈

Question 7

What is the definiton of the ablation zone

Answer 7

Where there are outputs from the glacial budget

Question 8

What might happen in the zone of ablation

Answer 8

Melting due to tempreture rise

Question 9

What is plucking

Answer 9

Melt water from a glacier freezes to the rock. When the ice moves downhill, rock is taken from
the back wall.

Question 10

How are Glaciers formed

Answer 10

Growing. A glacier forms when snow accumulates over time, turns to ice,in polar and high-altitude alpine regions, glaciers generally accumulate more snow than they lose from melting, evaporation, or calving.