Q.1
Which of the following features is caused by freeze-thaw weathering?
  • A valley
  • A pyramidal peak
  • A ribbon lake
  • All of the above
Q.2
What is a truncated spur?
  • A feature of a valley created by a river bursting its banks due to a glacier melting rapidly
  • A feature of a ribbon lake
  • An interlocking spur that has been cut by a glacier
  • Another name for an interlocking spur
Q.3
What gives a glacier its erosional power?
  • Loose blocks of ice
  • Pieces of rock embedded within the ice
  • Lateral moraines
  • Wind and rain moving the ice from side to side
Q.4
What causes a glacier to move?
  • Gravity
  • Molten ice
  • Molten lava
  • Storms pushing down on the ice
Q.5
Crib Goch is an arête on Snowdon (a mountain in Wales). It lies between two U-shaped valleys. Which of the following is the most likely way it was formed?
  • Wind erosion
  • Volcanic activity
  • Freeze-thaw weathering
  • An earthquake that happened just after Snowdon was formed
Q.6
The place where a glacier forms is ...
  • corrie
  • cwm
  • cirque
  • all of the above
Q.7
How is a hanging valley formed?
  • Plate tectonics pushes it upwards
  • Water rushing out from a glacier as it is melting in the summer
  • Freeze-thaw weathering occurs along a fault line that joins an established glaciated valley
  • A small glacier flows into a larger one
Q.8
Which of the following features is created by the overdeepening of a glacial valley by the glacier that made it?
  • Ribbon lake
  • String lake
  • Oxbow lake
  • Glacier lake
Q.9
What is the letter that describes the profile of a valley that has been cut by a glacier?
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • X
Q.10
Which of the following is not a glacial erosion landform?
  • Hanging valley
  • U-shaped valley
  • Drumlin
  • Cwm
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