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What are narrow divides between two cirques called?
Arêtes
What are two faces that intersect called?
The place where two faces (planes) intersect is called an edge.
The point where the altitudes of the triangle intersect?
the point where the altitudes intersect is called the orthocenter.
What is the location called where two lines lines cross or intersect?
Two lines cross or intersect at a point.
What are two angles that intersect called?
A vertex.
Where do cirques intersect?
Cirques could intersect at an intermediate ridge. This would be less common.
What are Three sided valleys called?
TRIANGLESthey are cirques
Glacial feature with its description?
Cirque: A bowl-shaped depression on the side of a mountain, formed by the erosive activity of a glacier. Cirques are typically characterized by steep walls and may contain a small lake called a tarn at their base.
Three-sided valleys are 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
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.
How is glacial horn created?
Glaciers grind into mountains by eroding the cirques at their heads. If a mountain has cirques all around it, it is called a horn
What are narrow divides between two cirques called?
Arêtes
Coplanar lines that do not intersect are called?
Coplanar lines that do not intersect are called parallel lines.
What are lines that do not intersect called?
Lines that never intersect are parallel.
Match the glacial feature with its description?
Fjords: Steep ocean inlets Drumlins: Smooth hills Cirques: Armchair-shaped valleys Moraines: Piles of rocks :D
What are the rounded basins carved into the sides of mountains by valley glaciers?
they are called Corries or cirques!
