Glaciated Upland Landscapes and Processes | Edexcel GCSE Geography A (1GA0)
Glaciated Upland Landscapes and Processes
- 75 questions
- 6 subtopics
- Paper 1
- Paper 1
Glaciated Upland Landscapes and Processes is examined in Paper 1, The Physical Environment.
It covers glacial processes and the processes at work on relict landscapes today, past climate and present UK weather in glaciated uplands, glacial landforms of erosion and deposition, crag and tail, and drumlins, human activity and development in glaciated uplands and a named distinctive glaciated upland landscape in the UK.
Sample questions from Glaciated Upland Landscapes and Processes
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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Glacial processes and the processes at work on relict landscapes today
What causes a glacier to deposit the load it is carrying?
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Melting, because ice that is thinning or retreating no longer has the energy to move its load and simply drops it. -
Glacial processes and the processes at work on relict landscapes today
Why do bare rock faces in a relict glacial valley weather especially quickly?
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They have no soil or vegetation cover to insulate them, so the rock is exposed directly to repeated freezing and thawing. -
Past climate and present UK weather in glaciated uplands
What is meant by a seasonal variation in weather?
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A change in weather conditions through the year, such as the difference between cold, wet winters and milder summers. -
Past climate and present UK weather in glaciated uplands
How does prolonged heavy rain make mass movement more likely on an upland slope?
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The water adds weight to the soil and lubricates it, reducing friction so that slumps and slides are triggered more easily. -
Glacial landforms of erosion and deposition
What is a truncated spur?
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A ridge of higher land that once projected into the valley and has been cut off with a steep, blunt end because the glacier could not bend around it. -
Glacial landforms of erosion and deposition
What is a terminal moraine, and what does its position tell you?
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A ridge of dumped material lying across the valley, marking the furthest point the snout of the glacier reached before it retreated. -
Crag and tail, and drumlins
Explain why material is left behind in the tail.
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The hard crag sheltered the ground behind it, so the ice passing over had less energy to erode and dropped its load there instead. -
Crag and tail, and drumlins
Suggest why a drumlin begins to form.
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The ice becomes overloaded with material and drops some of it, and the ice moving over the mound then moulds it into a streamlined shape.
The 6 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| Glacial processes and the processes at work on relict landscapes today | Plucking and abrasion and the surfaces they leave, how glaciers carry and deposit material, relict landscapes, mechanical weathering and freeze-thaw, scree, mass movement, soil creep, and the difference between a rock slide and a rock fall. | 15 |
| Past climate and present UK weather in glaciated uplands | Why UK uplands hold glacial landforms but no glaciers, what happened as the ice melted, diurnal and seasonal variation in weather, when freeze-thaw is most active, and how heavy rain, relief rainfall and snowmelt drive mass movement and erosion. | 10 |
| Glacial landforms of erosion and deposition | Corries, arêtes, tarns, glacial troughs, truncated spurs, hanging valleys, roches moutonnées and what they show of ice direction, ground and terminal moraine, and how corries, arêtes and glacial troughs are recognised on OS maps. | 16 |
| Crag and tail, and drumlins | What a crag and tail is, how erosion and deposition combine to form it and why material collects in the tail, what drumlins are made of and how their shape shows ice direction, why they occur in swarms, and how they differ from crag and tail. | 10 |
| Human activity and development in glaciated uplands | How grazing, conifer plantations and felling alter soil, runoff and slope stability, why settlements sit on valley floors, reservoirs, hydroelectric power and wind farms, and the benefits and damage of tourism and conservation. | 14 |
| A named distinctive glaciated upland landscape in the UK | Why position matters to a glaciated upland, the karst, igneous and metamorphic rocks beneath the UK's uplands, the glacial and later processes that shaped it, and the physical and human influences changing it today. | 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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