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cirques

A broad rocky mountain cirque with a small tarn below its steep curved headwall, viewed from a distant marked hiking trail.
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A mountain cirque is a bowl left by moving ice

Recognise the bowl-shaped outline of a mountain cirque and use a landscape photograph or map to ask better questions about its glacial history.

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