Bowl-shaped depressions in bedrock at upstream ends of alpine glacial valleys are called ________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word


cirque

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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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This is not a major mechanism for the formation of clouds

A) orographic lifting. B) convection. C) frontal lifting. D) temperature inversion. E) surface convergence.

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What is an exact interpolation method?

What will be an ideal response?

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The location of Washington, D.C. as the U.S. capital was made possible by a compromise between northern and southern states in 1790. What decision was analogous in Australia?

A. Melbourne and Sydney were competing to be the the national capital, so they built the new capital, Canberra, halfway between the two. B. Since Australia's population is evenly split between southeast and southwest coasts, Adelaide on the south coast was made the capital. C. White Australia's wanted an English name for the capital, but aborigines wanted an indigenous name, so the compromise was Canberra, which means "meeting place." D. Canberra's layout was designed by Chicago architects Walter Burly Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin.

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