Question

Carefully observe the glacially created landscape feature and answer the following (A-D). NOTE: do not repeat landforms - use each landform only once in this quiz. A) Give the name of the feature (if you notice more than one feature, just name one) B) State "erosional" or "depositional" depending on whether the feature was created by a glacier eroding bedrock or by a glacier depositing sediment. C) Describe what the feature is and how it was formed D) Briefly, describe what evidence from the photo you used as basis for your identification of the feature

Answer 1

A) The given glacially created landscape feature is a glacial horn.

B) Glacial horn was created by the glacier eroding bedrocks as a result of the cirque erosion.

C) The feature is glacial horn which was formed by the cirque erosion where the massive/multiple layers of the glacier ice sheets moves along the mountain valley and the mountain valley must be steep sloping and sharp edges and then the mountain forms like a angular and sharp pointed peak.

D) The glacier mountain in this photos shows angular, sharp pointed peak and the mountain valley must have the steep sloping, these are the evidence which used as a basis for identification of the glacial landscape feature.