The cards Question What is an ice sheet? Tap to flip Answer A vast, continuous expanse of ice covering a very large area of land. Question What is a glacier? Tap to flip Answer A large mass of ice that forms on land and moves slowly due to gravity. Question What is freeze-thaw weathering? Tap to flip Answer The break-up of rocks caused by water regularly freezing and thawing. Question What is glacial till? Tap to flip Answer A mixture of unsorted debris. Question Give one type of material deposited by glaciers. Tap to flip Answer e.g. till or outwash. Question Does ice shape landscapes only while it is melting? Tap to flip Answer No. It modifies them through continuous erosion, transportation and deposition. Question What is plucking? Tap to flip Answer When a glacier pulls chunks of rock from the bedrock as it moves over it. Question What is glacial abrasion? Tap to flip Answer When rocks and debris carried by a glacier scrape and wear away the surface beneath it. Question What is a glacial trough? Tap to flip Answer A valley reshaped by glacial erosion into a U-shape. Question What is moraine? Tap to flip Answer An accumulation of unsorted debris, such as soil and rock, deposited by a glacier. Question Give one landform formed by glacial erosion. Tap to flip Answer e.g. corries, arêtes, pyramidal peaks, truncated spurs or glacial troughs. Question Give one landform formed by glacial transportation and deposition. Tap to flip Answer e.g. erratics, drumlins or moraine. Question What was the Last Glacial Maximum? Tap to flip Answer The period, about 26 000 years ago in the last Ice Age, when ice sheets were at their largest extent. Question What is a corrie (or cwm)? Tap to flip Answer A bowl-shaped hollow eroded by a glacier, typically at the head of a valley. Question What do contour lines on a map connect? Tap to flip Answer Points of equal height above sea level. Question What is GIS? Tap to flip Answer Geographic Information Systems: computer systems for capturing, storing, analysing and displaying geographic data. Question Are glaciated landscapes found only in polar regions? Tap to flip Answer No. They are found in many mountainous regions, including Snowdonia in North Wales. Question What is quarrying? Tap to flip Answer Extracting stone or other materials from a quarry. Question What is forestry? Tap to flip Answer The science and practice of planting, managing and caring for forests. Question Give one economic activity in glaciated upland areas. Tap to flip Answer e.g. tourism, farming, forestry or quarrying. Question Which type of farming is common in glaciated upland areas despite the harsh conditions? Tap to flip Answer Sheep farming. Question What is conflict in land use? Tap to flip Answer Tension between people or activities with opposing views or impacts. Question What is conservation, as opposed to development? Tap to flip Answer Preserving the natural or built environment, usually with minimal change. Question What is a stakeholder? Tap to flip Answer An individual or group with an interest or concern in a particular issue. Question Besides conservation groups and developers, give one stakeholder in glaciated upland land use conflicts. Tap to flip Answer e.g. local communities, local governments, farmers or tourism operators. Question What is a national park? Tap to flip Answer A protected area of natural beauty, wildlife and cultural importance, managed to preserve it while allowing public access. Question What is sustainable tourism? Tap to flip Answer Tourism that considers its current and future economic, social and environmental impacts. Question Besides climbing mountains, give one reason people visit Eryri National Park. Tap to flip Answer e.g. other outdoor activities, or the historical and cultural attractions of North Wales. Question What is an oblique view of a landscape? Tap to flip Answer A view from one side at an angle, also called a perspective view. Question What is orientation in GIS mapping? Tap to flip Answer Rotating a map in 2D or 3D to give different viewpoints around the compass. Question What is a pop-up in GIS? Tap to flip Answer A display of attribute information, such as text, images or charts, that appears when you click a point on a webmap. Question In a 3D Scene, what does clicking the compass do? Tap to flip Answer Resets the visualisation so that north is at the top. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage GCSE (Years 10–11) Course GCSE Geography Unit Glacial landscapes Exam boards AQA England's National Curriculum sets what is taught; the units and their order are Oak National Academy's. Flash Feed is not affiliated with Oak or any exam board.
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