Landforms Created by Glaciers

Q. What is plucking?

1. The scratching and scraping of glaciers on mountain rocks
2. The melting of bottom layers of ice of the glacier
3. The displacement of loose rocks from the surface of the slopes
4. The process of erosion by a glacier that forms glacial horns

Q. Choose the correct pair.

1. Alps Snowline
2. Glacial Horns
3. Two Cirques
4. Greenland
5. 2700 m
6. Three Cirques
7. Aretes
8. 600 m

Q. From the following, identify the erosional landform created by a glacier.

1. Esker
2. Moraine
3. Cirque
4. Drumline

Q. Which of the following landforms are formed by tributaries of glaciers over the main glacial valley?

1. Aretes
2. Cirques
3. Hanging valleys
4. Drumlins

Q. When two bowls of depression are formed on the side of a mountain and joined back to back, it forms sharp and narrow ridges known as .

1. cirques
2. aretes
3. hanging valleys

Q. Which of the following is not a type of erosional landform created by a glacier?

1. Cirque
2. Aretes
3. Hanging Valleys
4. Continental Glacier

Q. Glaciers form hanging valleys as the main valley gets eroded faster than the tributary valleys.

1. True
2. False