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The sand paper effect Abrasion
Ice sticks to the rock and gets pulled away as the glacier moves. Plucking
It provides the material which the glacier uses for abrasion. Freeze-thaw
A glacier in an hollow in the side of a mountain. Corrie
A knife-edged ridged formed between two corries. Arete
formed when three or more corries cut backwards into the same mountain. Pyramidal peak
A hanging valley which has not been eroded as deeply as the main valley. Truncated spur
A distinctive U-shaped valleys with a flat floor and steep sides. Glacial trough
Another name for a glacial trough. U-shaped valley
A valley that is cut across by a deeper valley Hanging valley
An arete in the Lake Distirct Striding edge
A famous pyramidal peak in Switzerland. Matterhorn
A sharp, narrow mountain ridge Arete
The process of wearing down or rubbing away by means of friction. Abrasion
An elongated lowland between ranges on mountains, hills or other uplands Valley
A small mountain lake Tarn
A crevasse at the head of a glacier Bergschrund
Loose rock or debris covering a slope Scree
A round hollow in a hillside Corrie
The upper part of a glacier where the snow turns to ice Neve
A scenic area of north-west England including the Cumbrian mountains and some 15 lakes Lake District
Granular, partly consolidated snow that has been passed through one summer melt season but is not yet glacial ice Firn
Water that has frozen into a solid ice
A flow of water that is either to small or large to have eroded the valley in which it flows Misfit Stream
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An erosional prosses abrasion
Another prosses of erosion used by glaciers to break down the surounding rock plucking
A type of weathering when water freezes and expands freeze-thaw
there is often tarn there corrie
Often a group of corries on one mountain arete
A sharply pointed mountain peak which isdue to multiple glaciers diverging from a central point pyramidal peak
A ridge that curves down to create one side oof a valley truncated spur
a lake or river left at the bottom of a u or v shaped valley Glacial trough
A valley left after a glacier has fully reteated u-shaped valley
the product of different rates of erosion between the main valley and the valleys that enter it along its sides hanging valley
a photo diary of Lake District fell walks Striding Edge
a pyramidal peak mountain in the alps matterhorn
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U shaped valley