Geography GCSE
Glacial landscapes
What Glacial landscapes means in Geography GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Glacial landscapes
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One of the landscapes that can be described from large scale maps, including U-shaped valleys with steep sides and flat bottoms, corries shown by horseshoe-shaped contours, and arêtes.
Topics that use Glacial landscapes
- Cartographic skills (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Annotation
- Cartographic interpretation
- Cartographic skills
- Contour lines
- Contour patterns
- Curved line distance
- Direction
- Fluvial landscapes
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