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Answer the questions below

What is the name of a ridge seperating two corries?   Select an answer Arete Corrie scree U shaped valley cwm  


What is the name of a deep rounded hollow found on the side of mountains as a result of glacial erosion?   Select an answer Corrie U shaped valley Moraine Abraision Plucking  


Which of the following is a type of glacial erosion?   Select an answer U shaped valley Corrie Moraine Scree Plucking  


Which of the following contain areas of upland glacial scenery?   Select an answer Snowdonia and the Lake District North Yorkshire Moors and Northumberland Dartmoor and The Norfolk Broads Yorkshire Dales and The New Forest Breacon Beacons and North Yorkshire Moors  


What is the effect of the wearing away of rock by fragments of other rock carried by moving ice?   Select an answer Plucking Ablation Abrasion Freeze thaw Accumulation  


What is the name of the following process? - Water enters cracks in the rock during the day, then expands at night, enlarging the cracks. More enters the next day, and the cycle continues until the rock breaks.   Select an answer Plucking Ablation Abrasion Freeze thaw Accumulation  


Why are upland glaciated areas popular destinations among tourists?   Select an answer The spectacular scenery They're good locations for hiking Good locations for Skiing They are suitable locations for hang-gliding All of the above  


What is the name given to material carried by a glacier?   Select an answer Morain Rock lip Tarn Corrie Erosion  


What is the term used to describe a glacier pulling away rock which it is frozen to?   Select an answer Freeze thaw Ablation Abrasion Plucking Accumulation  


What is the name given to a feature formed when three or more corries cut back into the same mountain?   Select an answer Pyramidal peak Truncated spur Hanging valley Arete Waterfall  

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