GCSE Geography – Ice erosion in upland areas
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Question 1 of 19
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What is the term for a deep armchair-shaped hollow found on the flank of a mountainside?
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What is the term when two corries form side by side, or back to back?
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What is the geographical term used to describe three or more corries, in hollows on all sides of a mountain?
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Where on mountains, in the UK, are the deepest corries found?
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When the ice retreated at the end of the last ice age, deep corries were filled with meltwater. What are these called?
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In the UK, what shape would a valley have been before glaciation?
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In the UK, what shape would a valley have been after glaciation?
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Following glaciation, what formation have the valleys interlocking spurs been shaped into?
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How many years ago did the last ice-age end?
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Long, thin, U-shaped valleys are formed by glacial erosion. After the ice has gone, rainwater fills the valley bottom to form a long, thin lake. What is this lake called?
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After glaciation, smaller tributary valleys were left cut-off above the main glacial trough. These now result in spectacular waterfalls. What are these cut-off valleys called?
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What is another name for a U-shaped valley?
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What is the side of a mountain called?
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Why are the deepest corries in the UK found on the Northeast side of mountains?
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What is the name of a very steep sided valley, with almost vertical sides leading down to a straight and wide valley floor?
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What is the sediment pushed in front of a glacier called?
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What is another name for a corrie?
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18. Question
What is a knife-edge ridge often found at the back of a corrie called?
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19. Question
What is a lake within a corrie, sometimes called?
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