How do glacial processes form the land

• Glaciers shape the land through processes of weathering, erosion, transportation and deposition, creating distinct landforms.
• During the last ice age in the UK, temperatures remained low throughout the year and ice sheets and glaciers covered the north of the UK and other parts of Europe.
• Glaciers shape the land through processes of erosion, weathering, transportation and deposition, creating distinct landforms.
• Abrasion is a type of glacial erosion that occurs when rock fragments that are frozen into the bottom of a glacier scrape and erode the valley floor.
• Plucking is a type of glacial erosion that occurs when ice freezes onto the landscape, ripping out rocks when it moves.
• Freeze-thaw weathering is the main type of weathering, when water in rocks freezes and expands, breaking the rock apart.
• During the day when temperatures are higher, the snow melts and water enters the cracks in the rock.
• When the temperature drops below 0°C the water in the crack freezes and expands by about 9 per cent, making the crack larger.
• As this process is repeated through continual thawing and freezing the crack gets larger over time, eventually pieces of rock break off.