Landscape image interpretation task
• View the images in each of these slides.• There is a question beneath each image –
attempt to answer each one.• Note down your answers so that you can
review them later or use them as part of a class discussion.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Matterhorn#mediaviewer/File:Valais_mountains.jpg
The Alps (Switzerland) Blue Ridge Mountains, South Carolina, USA
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_Ridge_Mountains_at_Tamassee,_South_Carolina.jpg?uselang=en-gb
Ignoring the fact that one of the images has snow and ice in it and the other does not,What differences do you notice in the shapes of the two landscapes?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Weathering_freeze_thaw_action,_Spain.jpg?uselang=en-gb
Why are the rocks sharp and jagged in the mountain photo and smooth and rounded at the beach?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shingle_Beach_-_geograph.org.uk_-_580940.jpg?uselang=en-gb
Luis Paquito
Anne Burgess
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA
The sharp edged, angular rocks on this slope are called pieces of ‘scree’ (or ‘talus’). Can you think of what ‘physical weathering’ process has broken up the rock into these pieces? And how does it work?
DEA
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Olympus_Blue_Glacier_from_Lateral_Moraine_Panorama.jpg?uselang=en-gb
Notice the rocky debris along the sides of this glacier (called ‘lateral moraine’)Viewed close up, the pieces of rock would be jagged and angular as in the previous photo. Where has this rocky debris come from, and how do you think it got to the glacier?
Aaron Linville
Blue Glacier, Olympic Range, Washington State, USA
A photo looking underneath a glacier
http://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/glossary/glacier-sole-en.html
How do you think pieces of rock debris can get picked up by the glacieras it moves over the ground? Hint: there is melting and refreezing of waterbeneath glaciers.
J.Alean & M.Hambrey
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glacial_striations.JPG?uselang=en-gb
These scratches (glacial ‘striations’) formed in the past when a glacier was in this valley.Can you describe the process that caused the scratches on this rock outcrop? Hint: glaciers move rocky debris inside and under them as well as along the surface.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:V-shaped_valley_below_Craig_y_Gath_-_geograph.org.uk_-_811259.jpg?uselang=en-gb
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U-Shaped_valley,_Glen_Clova_-_geograph.org.uk_-_477230.jpg?uselang=en-gb
One of these valleys was eroded out by aglacier. Describe the shapes of the two valleysand suggest reasons for the difference.
Gwen and James Anderson
Rudi Winter
Hummocky moraine in north-west Scotland
Describe the shape of the piles of rocky debris in the photograph. Why do you thinkthis can be interpreted as the work of glacier ice rather than of running water?
DEA
Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
What evidence is there in this photo that glaciers extended further down the mountain slopes in the past?
DEA
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Snowdonia#mediaviewer/File:Snowdon_massif.jpg
What evidence is there in this photo that this area used to have glaciers?
Snowdonia, north Wales
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