Fun game testing learning of some key terms and concepts from AQA AS Geography Glaciers part of Cold Environments option topic - but equally applicable to OCR and WJEC and probably other courses too. See separate upload for written quiz with same questions for printing and distribution for more formal individual testing of learning. Some of the answers you might find a little idiosyncratic to my way of teaching and things I emphasise that you may not wish to (e.g. moraine as a landform, till as the substance) - but you can change any you don't like!! Let me know if you like it and use it - I may produce some more for other parts of course (e.g. fluvio- or peri-glaciation), and I'll definitely upload them and link on the AQA ning if others want to use them. I've written some notes at the bottom of the slides of some of the harder Qs - but ask here or on the ning if anything unclear etc...
There are two striation directions – indicating more than one episode of glaciation, with the glacier moving in slightly different directions – BUT it’s not possible to tell if the ice flow direction was from the bottom to top or top to bottom, so the answer is C…
Obviously A is sort of correct, but... B is the correct answer (e.g. Shap granite erratics in Yorkshire like the one shown indicating an ice flow direction from the NW (where Shap, Cumbria is compared to Yorkshire)
B is WHERE not WHEN (RTQ!), D is true, but A is the better answer (e.g. pressure melting and summer surface melt don’t happen at the snout)
D is true – but there is nothing in the diagram to prove this is a glacial feature
Some may say A – but friction doesn’t lower the melting point, it just warms the ice
Pleistocene ended 10,000 BP – the Holocene is the time since then – this has both the late Pleistocene and the Holocene – ie the Late Quaternary
“best” is a key word – could be B, but D is better description [NB – UNsorted is better than poorly sorted because there is no sorting at all]
D is understandable – but dating of clasts isn’t possible – can’t do carbon dating, too young for other radiometric dating techniques, any fossils would be from original deposit of e.g. limestone, not from when the moraine was formed