Encyclopedia of Geography Terms, Themes, and Concepts
near-coastal ocean bottom. The storm surge gives no quarter and it is in the storm surge that most lives are lost. The horrific ...
energy needed to create atmospheric disturbances such as thunderstorms and hur- ricanes. Of tremendous importance is water vapor ...
falling on the land can be in solid or liquid form. Solid precipitation—snow, sleet, ice pellets, and hail—remain in storage on ...
along streams, and some streams flow into natural and artificial ponds and lakes that can impound water for many years. Precipit ...
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I Imperialism A set of policies, processes, and strategies that contribute to the construction of an empire. Imperialism has bee ...
pursued, and both countries had officially abolished slavery in their colonies prior to 1850. This is not to suggest that the tr ...
place across a larger geographic area. This process completely remade the cultural landscapeof much of the colonial world, as Ch ...
of the centrifugal tendency andbalkanizationthat have characterized African politics since the 1950s because they often clustere ...
cesarean delivery) with a beating heart or other visible signs of life. Stillbirths, miscarriages, and abortions are not include ...
claim. Irredentism is a policy rooted interritorialityand theorganic theoryof the state, and had a profound effect on thegeopoli ...
Today there are at least 25 active irredentist claims around the world, and a number of serious conflicts stem directly from the ...
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K Karst Karst is an unusual word used to describe an interesting set of landforms and land- forming processes. The word is the G ...
contact of groundwater with rock introduces other impurities which hasten solu- tion. Solution rates are fastest where groundwat ...
along the river with the bare rock walls of the towers is dramatically echoed in sev- eral other places such as Malaysia and Tha ...
pastoralists to move their herds to use the plentiful winter grasses that grow in the joints of the limestone; these grasses are ...
L Landscape A landscape to a geographer consists of an area or smallregionand the features that appear there. These features may ...
spatial manifestations of popular culture. Donald Meinig was a central figure in the emergence of new perspectives in cultural g ...
landscapes concern how they are constructed, why they are constructed, and how they affect the behavior and attitudes of those w ...
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