Unit 9: Option C — Extreme Environments
Topic 9.2: Physical processes and landscapes Questions
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Give one physical reason, with development, why permafrost makes operating Arctic extraction industries difficult.
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Outline one way grasses help sand dunes to form.
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In the northern hemisphere most corries tend to face…
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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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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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Which pair of processes mainly erode a corrie?
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The table summarises the sand supply, wind and vegetation conditions under which different desert dunes form.
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Give one reason why a sustained drop in temperature would make a glacier advance, and develop the explanation.
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Outline two ways in which water, despite the dryness, helps to shape hot-desert landforms.
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Explain how freeze-thaw weathering shapes landforms in a periglacial environment.
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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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The table shows the average monthly temperature range and rainfall recorded at a hot-desert weather station.
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Why does vegetation help sand dunes to build up?
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Weathering in a hot desert means the breakdown of rock that…
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A glacier will advance when its mass balance shows…
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State one process of wind transport in a desert.
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Calculate how far the dune will have migrated after 25 years.
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