IELTS Listening · Flow-chart Completion

Glacial Landscape Evolution

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Glacial Landscape Evolution

You will hear a geography lecturer explaining how glaciers shape mountain landscapes.

One speaker · British English · 3:31

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Questions 1–6

Complete the flow-chart below. Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Word limit: ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER

Stages in Glacial Landscape Transformation

  1. Snow in mountain hollows is compressed into thick crystalline ice.
  2. The expanding ice moves down the valley, pulled by 1.
  3. Freeze-thaw action cracks the bedrock, and loose blocks are removed by 2.
  4. Rock fragments embedded in the ice grind against the bedrock, creating fine 3.
  5. Narrow V-shaped valleys are reshaped into a wide, flat-bottomed 4.
  6. Melting ice deposits mounds and ridges of debris known as 5.
  7. Depressions carved in the valley floor fill with water to form 6.

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