Unit 9: Option C — Extreme Environments
Topic 9.2: Physical processes and landscapes Questions
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Weathering in a hot desert means the breakdown of rock that…
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Sand dunes are forming on a desert margin where some grasses grow. Outline one reason why vegetation matters when sand dunes are forming, and develop your point.
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Explain how wind both erodes and deposits material to shape hot-desert landforms.
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A survey recorded the compass direction each corrie in a mountain range faces. The table gives the tally.
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Explain how solifluction produces landforms on a periglacial slope.
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Explain how a glacier turns a V-shaped river valley into a U-shaped glacial trough.
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Permafrost is best described as ground that is…
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Which desert landform is shaped mainly by water?
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A sketch of a glaciated upland labels several landforms A-D. The key below describes each label's position in the scene.
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Why does vegetation help sand dunes to build up?
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The table summarises the sand supply, wind and vegetation conditions under which different desert dunes form.
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Explain how freeze-thaw weathering shapes landforms in a periglacial environment.
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Solifluction in a periglacial environment is the…
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On the dune graph, strong wind with little sand tends to form…
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A rock pedestal (mushroom rock) is formed mainly by…
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Name one erosional process that helps form a corrie and develop how it shapes the hollow.
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In the northern hemisphere most corries tend to face…
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Give one physical reason, with development, why permafrost makes operating Arctic extraction industries difficult.
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Name one hot-desert landform shaped by wind erosion, and explain how the wind forms it.
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Name one hot-desert landform shaped by water, and explain how water forms it.
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