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Test 7

Glaciation

Answers to this test can be found in the next Unit of Get That Grade!
 
1 Study these photographs - you can enlarge them by clicking on them.
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Photo Credit: C. Mullen/Frank Lane Picture Agency Photo Credit: David Waugh

(a)

On either of these photographs label:

(i) a corrie without a lake
(ii) a corrie lake
(iii) scree on a corrie back wall
(iv) a hanging valley
(v) 2 arêtes
(vi) a pyramid peak
(vii) a corrie lip
(viii) an area where 'plucking' by the ice took place
(ix) an area where the ice eroded by 'abrasion'

(If you can print out the pictures, do so and then label your copy. If you cannot print the pictures, just find each feature.)

(10)
  (b) Choose one of the features you labelled in (i) - (vi) above.
Explain how that feature was formed.
You may use one or more diagrams to help your explanation.
(6)


2

Now study this photo - you can enlarge it by clicking on it. It shows Wasdale, a valley in the Lake District.

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Photo Credit: Roger Antrobus/Corbis

  (a) Describe the evidence in the photograph which shows that this area has been eroded by a valley glacier. (4)
  (b) Name two outdoor pursuits that would be suited to this area. For each of your pursuits, explain why this area is suitable. (4)
  (c) Most of the land in this picture is owned by farmers who use it to rear sheep. Suggest how conflict might arise between the farmers and tourists:
(i) on the land in the bottom of the valley
(ii) on the steep valley sides and on the hill tops		 (4)


3 Some areas of the countryside are known as 'tourist honeypots'.
  (a) What do you understand by the term 'honeypot'.
(2)
  (b) Name a tourist honeypot which you have studied and:
  (i) describe its natural attractions
  (ii) describe the facilities which are provided for visitors
  (iii) explain how the development of this honeypot site brings benefits and problems for people who are concerned with conservation of the countryside.
(8)