Encyclopedia of Geography Terms, Themes, and Concepts
with various statistical techniques, the model provides substantial insight into the workings of networks through space and what ...
squatter settlements, with some estimates running as high as one billion, and in some cities the residents living in such condit ...
America where barrios are often built on steep slopes or ravines. The soil in such locations is frequently unstable, and during ...
passages are terms that generally refer to naturally occurring navigable bodies of water. A canal is an artificial strait or cha ...
century, when European powers sought to establish a strategic balance on the conti- nent that would limit the possibility of war ...
Gibraltar one of the world’s most important choke points. Likewise, the Strait of Malacca, which separates Malaysia fromthe Indo ...
runoff. In the absence of significant tectonic disturbance, the overall effect over very long amounts of time is to make the hig ...
Streams gain flow in two ways. One is by the organization of runoff water (called overland flow) from thin sheets running off of ...
When the speed and direction of eddies are averaged over minutes, streams are known to exhibit helical flow, which is the corksc ...
by plentiful sediments as they depart the channel during floods and oxbow lakes that represent the cut off former stream meander ...
sought some mechanism beyond simple treaties to ensure a lasting peace on the continent and to avoid a repetition of the massive ...
The Maastricht Treaty created a trulysupranational organization in which member states have relinquished a significant amount of ...
Greece and the continued uncertain status of Cyprus remain major obstacles to Turkish ascension. Another challenge lies in the r ...
notion designed to achieve a state of equilibrium between development and con- servation across the spectrum of human experience ...
such capital are many and include marriage and family relationships, religious organizations, philanthropical and service groups ...
likely to be popular in those societies attempting to rapidly raise the average stan- dard of living, and where population press ...
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T Temperature All matter contains heat (whether or not it is hot to the touch). How much heat is present relates to a combinatio ...
radiometers are able to “take the temperature” of clouds, Earth’s water and land sur- faces, and vertical atmospheric temperatur ...
convergence moderates equatorial latitudes. The warmest places on the planet are associated with the land areas of the subtropic ...
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