Geography
Across
- 3. a mass of small loose stones that form or cover a slope on a mountain
- 4. Where several corries cut back to meet at a central point,the mountain takes the form of a steep pyramid
- 5. A former river valley spur which has been sliced off by a valley glacier,forming steep edges
- 6. a tributary glacial trough in the side of a main valley often with a waterfall
- 9. Armchair-shaped hollow in the mountainside formed by glacial erosion,rotational slip and freeze-thaw weathering-this is where the valley glacier begins
- 10. commonly produced by stream erosion
- 12. a small mountain lake
Down
- 1. formed by the process of glaciation
- 2. Frost shattered rock debris and material eroded from the valley floor and sides,transported and deposited by glaciers
- 7. A sharp,knife-like ridge formed between two corries cutting back by processes of erosion and freeze-thaw
- 8. the gradual destruction of something
- 11. the process of scraping or wearing something away.