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Junior Cycle Geography: Glaciation

How often Glaciation comes up on the Geography papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 3 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. most years

Glaciation, Common Level(7 marks)

Quick ones on Glaciation.

(a)Ice freezing onto rock and tearing pieces away as the glacier moves is?
  1. Abrasion
  2. Plucking
  3. Deposition
(b)An armchair-shaped hollow where a glacier began, often holding a lake, is a?
  1. Esker
  2. Drumlin
  3. Corrie
(c)How does a glaciated valley differ from a river valley?
  1. U-shaped with a wide flat floor
  2. Narrow with a winding meander
  3. V-shaped with interlocking spurs
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(a) Plucking

(b) Corrie

(c) U-shaped with a wide flat floor

Your turn: Common Level questions on Glaciation.

Common Level

Asked on 3 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. most years

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Q2A
2025Q5A, Q5B
2024Q6A, Q6B
2023Not asked
2022Not asked

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

More Glaciation questions

Glaciation, 2 marks

Egg-shaped hills of boulder clay common in Cavan and Monaghan are?

  1. Eskers
  2. Corries
  3. Drumlins
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Drumlins

Moving ice moulded boulder clay into oval hills, steep at the end facing the oncoming ice. Groups of drumlins look like a basket of eggs, as in Cavan and Clew Bay.

Glaciation, 2 marks

A long winding ridge of sand and gravel laid down by meltwater under a glacier is?

  1. A moraine
  2. An esker
  3. A drumlin
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An esker

Eskers were deposited by rivers flowing in tunnels under the ice. The Esker Riada across the midlands was once used as a routeway between Dublin and Galway.

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