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What is the name of bowl like features cut into mountains or hills where glaciers form?
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∙ 11y ago
That would be called a Fjord.
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What is the name of a bowl-like features cut into mountains or hills where glaciers form?
Fiord
What land-form created by glaciers has a bowl like shape?
U-shaped valleys, mountains, and aretes.
What land form is created when glaciers erode backwards into the mountainside and form a shape like a bowl?
Answer: Cirques
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What is the name of a bowl-like features cut into mountains or hills where glaciers form?
Fiord
What is the name of bowl-like features cut into mountains or hills where glaciers form?
That would be called a Fjord
What land-form created by glaciers has a bowl like shape?
U-shaped valleys, mountains, and aretes.
Glaciers erode the base of mountains into basins called cirques true or false?
This is false,cirques are caused when erosion at the beginning of a glacier wears down the walls of mountain peaks.Over time,this process creates bowl-shaped basins called cirques.
What are cirques?
Steep-sided, half-bowl shaped recesses carved into mountains at the heads of glacial valleys. The Fjords: Steep cliffs, acting as ocean inlets. Horn peaks: Where cirques intersect. Terminal moraines: Piles of rocks. Crevasses: Cracks in glaciers
What land form is created when glaciers erode backwards into the mountainside and form a shape like a bowl?
Answer: Cirques
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A low bowl-shaped landform between mountains is called a valley. Valleys are typically created by water erosion or glacier movement over time, creating a depression in the landscape between mountain peaks. They often contain rivers or streams and are important habitats for various plant and animal species.
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What is the bowl shaped depression where the valley glacier begins?
The Cirque is the name given to the bowl shaped depression were the valley glaciers usually begins. A glacier basically refers to a terminus that usually ends in a body of water.
