Standard Grade Glaciation

1. What feature is characterised by a waterfall?

Corrie

Pyramidal peak

Arete

Hanging valley

Truncated spur

2. How is it best to describe a corrie?

Wide and flat

Armchair hollow

Knife edge ridge

U-shaped valley

3. When 3 corries form back to back what feature is created?

Another corrie

Pyramidal peak

Arete

Hanging valley

Truncated spur

4. If a lake is left in the U-shaped valley what is it known as?

A reservoir

A loch

A ribbon lake

5. Freeze thaw weathering is still taking place in Scotland today. The jagged rock it creates is known as:

Rock

Scree

Debris

Pebbles

6. When 2 corries form back to back what feature is created?

Another corrie

Pyramidal peak

Arete

Hanging valley

Truncated spur

7. A hanging valley is formed by:

The main glacier

A tributary glacier

An identical glacier

8. Which process takes place above the ice?

Abrasion

Plucking

Freeze thaw

9. Why is a river running through a U-shaped valley called a Misfit Stream?

It was responsible for forming the valley shape.

It looks out of place. There was no way that it could have formed the valley shape.

It is long and narrow.

The river is always small.

10. Which process is responsible for deepening a corrie?

Freeze thaw

Plucking

Abrasion

Standard Grade Glaciation

1. What feature is characterised by a waterfall?

2.

What first name or nickname would you like us to use?

2. How is it best to describe a corrie?

3. When 3 corries form back to back what feature is created?

4. If a lake is left in the U-shaped valley what is it known as?

5. Freeze thaw weathering is still taking place in Scotland today. The jagged rock it creates is known as:

6. When 2 corries form back to back what feature is created?

7. A hanging valley is formed by:

8. Which process takes place above the ice?

9. Why is a river running through a U-shaped valley called a Misfit Stream?

10. Which process is responsible for deepening a corrie?