Frage | Antworten |
Glaciation | A time within an ice age when the average temperatures are cold enough for ice sheets to form. |
Misfit Stream | A small river occupying the floor of a u-shaped valley. |
Erosion | The wearing away of the landscape. - Plucking, abrasion & freeze-thaw weathering |
Plucking | A type of glacial erosion that occurs when ice freezes onto the landscape and when it moves, it rips out rocks. |
Abrasion | A type of glacial erosion that occurs when rock fragments frozen into the bottom of a glacier scrape and erode the valley floor. |
Striations | a series of ridges, furrows or linear mark |
Freeze-thaw weathering | When water enters cracks and freezes. Continuous freezing & thawing puts pressure on the rocks until small pieces of rock break off. |
Scree | A build up of broken rock fragments at the bottom of an upland area |
Corrie | A large hollow in the side of a mountain that was carved out by ice. |
Hollow | The dip in a mountain where snow and ice gather. |
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