The cards Question What is an ice sheet? Tap to flip Answer A large mass of ice covering an area of over 50 000 square kilometres. Question What is an ice age? Tap to flip Answer A period when thick ice sheets covered vast areas of land. Question Roughly when did the last ice age end? Tap to flip Answer Around 19 000 years ago. Question What was the name of the ice sheet that covered the north of the UK and part of Ireland? Tap to flip Answer The British-Irish ice sheet. Question Has Earth had only one ice age? Tap to flip Answer No. Repeated warming and cooling has led to a number of ice ages. Question What is the cryosphere? Tap to flip Answer The frozen parts of our planet. Question What is a glacier? Tap to flip Answer A huge accumulation of ice and snow that moves slowly downslope over land under gravity. Question What are glaciers made of? Tap to flip Answer Snow and ice compressed over many years. Question Are glaciers made of salt water or fresh water? Tap to flip Answer Fresh water, from snow and rain. Question What force makes a glacier move? Tap to flip Answer Gravity. Question Give one way glaciers erode the landscape. Tap to flip Answer Plucking or abrasion. Question What is plucking? Tap to flip Answer Meltwater refreezes onto bedrock and rocks are torn away as the glacier moves forward. Question What is glacial abrasion? Tap to flip Answer Rocks carried beneath the ice scratch and sandpaper the bedrock. Question What is moraine? Tap to flip Answer A ridge or mound of debris deposited by a glacier. Question When is moraine deposited? Tap to flip Answer When the ice melts. Question Why can glaciers look dirty rather than white? Tap to flip Answer They carry material. Question What is a U-shaped valley? Tap to flip Answer A valley with steep, straight sides and a flat bottom, formed by a glacier. Question What is a corrie? Tap to flip Answer A steep-sided, bowl-shaped hollow at the head of a valley or on a mountainside. Question What is an arete? Tap to flip Answer A narrow ridge of rock between two valleys. Question How does a truncated spur form? Tap to flip Answer A glacier cuts off an interlocking spur that was formed by a river. Question What is an erratic? Tap to flip Answer A large boulder transported and deposited by glacial ice, of a different rock type from the rocks around it. Question Where in England is the Lake District? Tap to flip Answer The north west. Question What is England's highest peak? Tap to flip Answer Scafell Pike. Question Which is the largest glacier in France? Tap to flip Answer The Mer de Glace. Question Give one positive impact of tourism at the Mer de Glace. Tap to flip Answer e.g. a boost to the local economy or awareness of climate change. Question Is Antarctica an ocean covered in ice? Tap to flip Answer No. It is a continent, with a landmass beneath its ice sheets. Question Does anyone live permanently in Antarctica? Tap to flip Answer No. Scientists work there, but no-one lives there permanently. Question What is a producer? Tap to flip Answer An organism that makes its own food using sunlight. Question What is an apex predator? Tap to flip Answer An organism at the top of the food chain, with no natural enemies. Question What are the producers in Antarctic food webs? Tap to flip Answer Phytoplankton. Question Which animal is an apex predator in Antarctic food webs? Tap to flip Answer The leopard seal. Question What is the Antarctic Treaty? Tap to flip Answer An international agreement to protect Antarctica. Question Give one activity the Antarctic Treaty prevents. Tap to flip Answer Mining, drilling or nuclear testing. Question What are the global commons? Tap to flip Answer Resources or areas that belong to all humanity. Question What is the Arctic Circle? Tap to flip Answer An imaginary line at latitude 66°33'N marking the boundary of the Arctic region. Question Is the Arctic land surrounded by ocean, or an ocean surrounded by land? Tap to flip Answer An ocean surrounded by land. Question Give one natural resource of the Arctic region. Tap to flip Answer e.g. oil, uranium, minerals or fish. Question Who are indigenous peoples? Tap to flip Answer The original inhabitants of a region. Question What is the tundra? Tap to flip Answer A vast, flat, treeless region found at high latitudes. Question What is permafrost? Tap to flip Answer Ground that remains permanently frozen. Question How does the Arctic fox's fur change through the year? Tap to flip Answer White in winter and brown in summer. Question How fast are polar regions warming compared with other places? Tap to flip Answer Faster than other places. Question How can melting sea ice disrupt ocean currents such as the Gulf Stream? Tap to flip Answer It alters the balance of fresh water and salt water in the ocean. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage Key stage 3 (Years 7–9) Course KS3 Geography Unit Ice and glaciers: How are cold places affected by a warming planet? 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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Show the other sources (10) Primary source The Arctic Tundra (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Climate change in polar regions (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Glacier formation (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Glacial processes (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Glacial landforms (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Evidence of glaciation in the UK (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source The Mer De Glace (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Antarctica: A frozen wilderness (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Antarctic food webs (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Protecting Antarctica (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Found a mistake? Write to support@flashfeed.app .
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