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Elementary School: 1st and 2nd Grade
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Glaciation
Solution
Q.1.
Which of the following statements is not true?
100%
Drumlins are a glacial erosion landform
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Freeze-thaw weathering helps to form pyramidal peaks and arêtes
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Ice sheets deposit a material called glacial till
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Glaciers carve out U-shaped valleys
Q.2.
The Athabasca glacier in the Canadian Rockies is a honeypot site. What is a honeypot site?
100%
A tourist location that attracts large numbers of visitors
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A tourist location that attracts small numbers of visitors
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A visitor center near a glacier
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Somewhere tourists can buy locally produced honey
Q.3.
Which of the following is a key difference between deposits from a glacier and deposits left by a river, lake or in the sea?
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The fragments of rock are unsorted and rounded
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The fragments of rock are unsorted and angular
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The fragments of rock are sorted and rounded
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The fragments of rock are sorted and angular
Q.4.
A glacial trough is another name for a ...
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pyramidal peak
100%
drumlin
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U-shaped valley
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channel cut by the water rushing out from underneath a glacier
Q.5.
In the past, the surface of the Earth has been covered by ...
100%
always more ice than at the present time
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always less ice than at the present time
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exactly the same amount of ice as the present time
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a variable amount of ice
Q.6.
Which of the following best describes the glacial budget?
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The amount of money spent on research into glaciers each year
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A comparison of snowfall and melting of a glacier
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The money spent at a winter sports resort to ensure that people are not killed by avalanches
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Something the Chancellor of the Exchequer issues on TV during the winter
Q.7.
During which months is glacial ablation likely to be greater for a southern hemisphere glacier?
100%
January to March
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April to June
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July to September
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October to December
Q.8.
In a winter sports resort, avalanches are a danger to the tourists who visit. Which one of the following statements about avalanches is false?
100%
Avalanches are more common where snow has built up in layers that are not bonded together
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A person buried by an avalanche is most likely to die from suffocation than from the cold
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Loud noises, earthquakes and storms can trigger an avalanche
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All avalanches start at a single point
Q.9.
What marks the boundary between the zone of accumulation of a glacier and the zone of ablation?
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A large yellow rock
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A crevasse
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There is no boundary
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The snowline
Q.10.
Which of the following is not usually formed directly by the passage of a glacier?
50%
A ribbon lake
50%
A glacial trough
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An arête
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A truncated spur
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