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प्रश्न
See the figure given below A, B, C. Answer the following questions.
Questions:
- What differences do you find in the three figures?
- Identify the landforms formed due to erosion by glaciers.
- Where can U–shape valley be formed?
- In which region will deposition start?
- Identify the landforms formed by deposition by glaciers.
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उत्तर
- Figure A shows the regions before the glacier-formed.
Figure B showed the regions covered by snow during glaciation.
Figure C shows different erosional and depositional features formed by glaciers after the glaciation period. - Cirques, horn, U-shaped valleys, hanging valleys are formed due to erosion by glaciers.
- U- Shaped valley is formed in the pre-existing valley.
- Deposition starts generally along the side and front of the ice.
- Drumlins, eskers, moraines are the depositional features formed by glaciers.
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Agents of Erosion and Landforms - Work of Glacier
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Choose the correct option by identifying the correct correlation in the sentence:
Sometimes, the river starts erosion upstream. This happens when the headstream gets a lot of water in the early stages of the river’s flow.
Give a geographical reason:
Snowline decides the limit of glacier work as an agent of erosion.
Distinguish between:
U shaped valley and V-shaped valley
In which diagram of the three will you find end moraines?
