Higher Lithosphere

Fully explain the process of hydraulic action

What does the terminal moraine show?

Fully explain the process of glacial plucking

What causes a corrie hollow to overdeepen?

Fully explain the process of freeze thaw

In the formation of an esker, what is the name of the gap that the stream enters the glacier through?

Fully explain the process of glacial abrasion

Fully explain the process of longshore drift.

Fully explain the process of coastal abrasion

Which feature can be found in 'a basket of eggs'?

What name is given to the crack which opens up between the ice and backwall of a corrie?

Describe the shape of and name both ends of a drumlin.

Fully explain the process of attrition

The Old Man of Hoy is an example of what feature?

Fully explain the process of solution

When headlands and bays form, what name is given to when the soft rock erodes faster than the hard rock?