Glacial Landscapes in the UK | AQA GCSE Geography (8035)
Glacial Landscapes in the UK
- 67 questions
- 5 subtopics
- Paper 1
- Paper 1
Glacial Landscapes in the UK is examined in Paper 1, Living with the physical environment.
It covers the last ice age in the UK, and glacial processes, glacial landforms of erosion, transport and deposition, Identifying landforms in a glaciated UK upland and economic activity, conflict and tourism in glaciated uplands.
Sample questions from Glacial Landscapes in the UK
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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The last ice age in the UK, and glacial processes
Explain how freeze-thaw weathering breaks up rock in a cold upland.
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Water collects in a crack, freezes and expands by about 9%, pushing the crack wider, and repeated freezing and thawing eventually snaps off angular fragments of rock. -
The last ice age in the UK, and glacial processes
What is rotational slip?
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It is the curved, downhill and rotating movement of ice within a hollow, which deepens the hollow into an armchair shape. -
Glacial landforms of erosion, transport and deposition
What are truncated spurs?
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They are steep, blunt-ended cliffs along the side of a glaciated valley, left where the glacier sliced straight through ridges of land that once jutted out into it. -
Glacial landforms of erosion, transport and deposition
Why are erratics useful to a geographer?
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Matching the boulder to the place its rock came from shows the direction in which the ice was moving. -
Identifying landforms in a glaciated UK upland
How would you recognise an arête when standing on one?
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It is a ridge so narrow you can see steep ground falling away on both sides at once, usually with a corrie hollow on either hand. -
Identifying landforms in a glaciated UK upland
Which glaciated upland area in the UK is often used as an example of glacial landforms?
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The Lake District in Cumbria, north-west England, where ice sheets and valley glaciers carved the mountains during the last ice age. -
Economic activity, conflict and tourism in glaciated uplands
Give a conflict that can arise between farmers and walkers in an upland area.
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Walkers crossing farmland can disturb grazing sheep, damage walls and leave gates open, while farmers who block or discourage access anger visitors who expect to roam. -
Economic activity, conflict and tourism in glaciated uplands
What kinds of attraction bring visitors to a glaciated upland area?
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Dramatic scenery of peaks, deep valleys and lakes, walking, climbing, cycling and water sports, and the villages, historic buildings and visitor centres that go with them.
The 5 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| The last ice age in the UK, and glacial processes | How far ice covered Britain in the last ice age and when it retreated, glacial and interglacial periods, freeze-thaw weathering, abrasion and plucking, rotational slip and bulldozing, and why glaciers deposit till and outwash. | 12 |
| Glacial landforms of erosion, transport and deposition | The formation of corries, arêtes, pyramidal peaks, truncated spurs, glacial troughs, ribbon lakes and hanging valleys, and the erratics, drumlins and lateral, medial, terminal and ground moraines left by ice. | 13 |
| Identifying landforms in a glaciated UK upland | Recognising corries, glaciated valleys, arêtes, moraine and striations in a UK upland and on maps, how eroded and deposited landforms link, and Lake District examples such as Red Tarn, Striding Edge, Great Langdale, Windermere and Wast Water. | 14 |
| Economic activity, conflict and tourism in glaciated uplands | Tourism, sheep farming, forestry and quarrying in glaciated uplands, conflicts between land uses and between development and conservation, holiday homes, and the social, economic and environmental impacts of tourism and how they are managed. | 18 |
| Tourism in the Lake District | Visitor numbers and spending in the Lake District, its attractions and protected status, the jobs, house prices, congestion and footpath erosion tourism brings, and management through Fix the Fells, the Windermere speed limit and public transport. | 10 |
How the guide is worked
Answering a question from memory stores it far better than reading the answer again. The guide runs that as a fixed procedure on one subtopic at a time, about twenty minutes a session.
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Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
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Step 2 · Open book
Go back to the top. Read each printed answer and write it out in full, including the ones you had right.
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Step 3 · Closed book again
Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.
Read the full method, the return schedule and the research behind it.
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