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Question 1 - What is this feature?

Ribbon lake

Glacial troughCwm

Kettle hole

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Tarn

Question 2What’s the covered label?

Rotational slip

Drumlin Bergschrund

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Question 3

What feature is this?

Crag and tail

Roche moutonnéePush moraine

Rock step

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Question 4What does the diagram show?

Lateral and end moraine

All of the aboveDrumlins and a ribbon lake

Snout

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Question 5

What was the ice flow direction?

From bottom to top

From the top AND from the top leftFrom top left

You can’t tell

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Question 6

What is this?

A crazy man

An arraticAn indication of ice flow direction

A fluvioglacial boulder

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Question 7 When does a glacier deposit?

When it melts

When it reaches the snoutIn the ablation zone

When it slows down

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Question 8 – what can you tell from this?

Plucking occurred onthe right hand side

Edinburgh was glaciated

Ice flow was from left to right (crag and tail)

Ice flow was from right to left

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Question 9 - What happens to the melting point of the ice towards the base of a glacier, and why?

Lowers due to pressure and friction

Rises due to pressure, friction and geothermal factorsRises due to pressure

Lowers due to pressure

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Question 10

What can you tell from thisdiagram?

This is a polar glacier

The glacier flows fastest in the middle, away from friction

The PMP increases towards the base

This is a temperate glacier

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Question 11 – what is shown here?

Late Pleistocene

Late QuaternaryHolocene

The Ice Age

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Question 12 – which is the best description of the photo

Poorly sorted boulder clay

Unsorted glacial till but with some sub-rounded clasts

Recessional moraine made of unsorted glacial till

Well sorted, sub-angular to sub-rounded glacial till

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Question 13

This is a drumlinswarm – what wasthe likely ice flow direction?

SE to NW

You can’t tellTowards the SSW

Towards the NNE

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Question 14 – Which is correct?

A – cwm, B – hanging valley,C – arête, D – terminal moraine

A – scree, B – misfit stream, C – arête, D – truncated spur

A – cirque, B – alp, C – horn, D – glacial trough

A – backwall, B – hanging valley, C – arête, D – old ribbon lake

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Question 15 – This picture may show a push moraine. How would you best test that theory?

All of the aboveProduce and analyse a rose diagram of clast orientation

Check where the moraineis in the valley

Date the clasts and compare with local climate history