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Component 1: Changing Landscapes and Changing Places
Quick questions on Glaciated landforms and landscapes - Eduqas A-Level Geography
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What is recording Quaternary climate change?Show answer
The Quaternary has seen repeated glacial and interglacial cycles, and the landscapes of upland Britain (Snowdonia, the Lake District, the Scottish Highlands) are relict, cut by Pleistocene ice and abandoned as the ice melted at the start of the present interglacial. Reading the limits of till and terminal moraines maps former ice extent, and the freshness of corries and troughs records the most recent glaciation. These landscapes are best understood as a palimpsest: an inherited record of past climate, overprinted by present-day weathering, mass movement, fluvial action and human use.
What is q1?Show answer
Distinguish between a terminal moraine and a lateral moraine. [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Explain why fluvioglacial deposits are sorted while till is unsorted. [3 marks]
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