Y7 Geography-Glaciated Landscapes

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What is the cryosphere?

The regions of Earth where ice dominates the landscape.

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What is a cold environment?

Where temper

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What are Inuits?

The religious population of the tundra.

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What is a biome?

A global scale, eg. Rainforests

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What is an ice age?

When the temperature of the world is a few degrees colder, and glacials form over 0 degrees celcius.

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What does interglacial mean?

A warmer spell between ice ages.

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What is ablation?

When a glacier loses ice.

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What is erosion?

When a glacier breaks down, and rocks start falling down.

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What is a corrie?

A dip in the ground where a glacier can start to form

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What is an arête?

A narrow steep sided ridge between two corries

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What is a tarn?

lake in a corrie.