Glaciation Key Terms

Question 1

Arête

Answer 1

Knife-edge ridge often found at the back of a Corrie/separating two glaciated valleys

Question 2

Pyramidal peak

Answer 2

3/more carries formed on a mountain, erosion causes a peak

Question 3

Corries

Answer 3

Large hollowed out depression found on the upper slopes of glaciated valleys

Question 4

Tarn

Answer 4

A corrie lake

Question 5

Net ablation

Answer 5

More melting than snowfall

Input < outputs

Question 6

Net accumulation

Answer 6

More snowfall than melting

Inputs > outputs

Question 7

Till

Answer 7

Broken rock fragments

Left behind when glacier retreats

Question 8

25,000 years ago covered all of ________, __________, ______________ & majority of _________

Answer 8

Scotland
Wales
Ireland

England

Question 9

Ribbon lakes

Answer 9

Long, thin lakes that collect from meltwater and rainwater after glacier has melted.