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Glaciated Landscape Development (AQA AS Geography): Exam Questions

Exam code: 7036

1 hour10 questions
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1 mark

What is the connection between glacial troughs and hanging valleys?

  • As the trough is created, interlocking spurs are truncated and hanging valleys are left behind as the glacier retreats.

  • As the glacier advances, massive amounts of debris are deposited at the snout, creating large hanging valleys.

  • The corrie feeds the valley glacier with ice. As the ice advances over the lip of the corrie, this creates a hanging valley.

  • Continuous freezing and thawing takes place daily. This leads to the formation of scree slopes and hanging valleys.

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9 marks

Analyse the links between climate, process and landform which lead to the formation of periglacial landscapes.

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3 marks

Outline processes leading to the occurrence of erratics.

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3 marks

Outline features of an outwash plain.

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6 marks

Figure 5 shows the total population and average age of people in districts in regions of Alaska in 2019.

Figure 6 shows the predicted total population and predicted average age of people in the same districts in 2045.

Scatter plot showing average age versus total population in 2019 for various regions, with distinct colours for each region, labelled in a key.
Scatter plot comparing predicted average age and total population in 2045 for various regions, each represented by a different coloured dot.

Analyse the data shown in Figure 5 and Figure 6.

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6
20 marks

‘The characteristics and distribution of periglacial landscapes will change rapidly in the future.’

To what extent do you agree with this statement?

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7
1 mark

What is a drumlin?

  • A curved ridge of deposited glacial debris dumped at the point of furthest extent of ice advance.

  • A rock shaped by a glacier. It has a smooth gently sloping up-valley slope and a jagged steep down-valley side.

  • An armchair shaped hollow on a mountainside, with a steep backwall, over-deepened base and a rock-lip on the down-valley side.

  • An elongated small hill shaped by a glacier, with a tapered end pointing in the direction of ice movement.

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8
1 mark

Which of the following describes a till plain?

  • A continental size mass of ice that is dome-shaped with flows of ice radiating from the centre.

  • A steep-sided ridge of unsorted material stretching across a glacial valley at right angles to the direction of ice advance.

  • A swarm of streamlined elongated ‘whale back’ hills often found on glaciated lowland plains.

  • A thick covering of unsorted glacial deposits found behind a terminal moraine.

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9
9 marks

Assess the extent to which erosion has been the dominant process in a local scale glaciated environment that you have studied.

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10
20 marks

Assess the potential impact of climate change on periglacial landscapes.

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