Encyclopedia of Geography Terms, Themes, and Concepts

Alber’s equal area projection, 221

Alberta, Canada, 97

Albuquerque, New Mexico, 97

Alexander VI, Pope, 207

Allegheny Mountains, 123

Alluvium, 328–29

Alonso, William, 27, 355

Altitude, and atmosphere, 20

Altitudinal zonation,11–13

American cuisine, 131

American identity, 229

Amish, 125

Amsterdam, Netherlands, 114

Anderson, Benedict, 235

Andes Mountains, 123, 258

Angle of repose, 363

Animal confinement, high density, 2–4, 5

Animal products, 4

Annuals of the Association of American

Geographers, 274

Antarctica, 60, 346

Antarctic air (AA), 10, 14

Antarctic Circle, 200

Antarctic Circumpolar Current, 244

Antecedent boundaries, 39

Anthropogenic deforestation, 92.

See alsoDeforestation

Anticline fold, 123

Anticyclones,13–16

Antwerp, Belgium, 114

Apartheid, 321

Appalachian region, 125–26, 318

Aquatic biomes, 33–34

Aquifer, 165

Aral Sea, 248

Arctic air (A), 10, 14

Arctic Circle, 200

Arctic Express, 15

Ardrey, Robert, 340

Area, vs. region, 280

Areal differentiation,16–18, 69, 71

Argentina, 112, 191

Argon, 19

Aristotle, 115, 147, 250

Arizona, 122

Armenia, 191

Arreola, Daniel, 130

Asia: carrying capacity, 47; European

languages in, 187, 205; geopolitics, 148–49;

imperialism, 147; Infant Mortality Rate

(IMR), 261; MacKinder on, 149, 169–70;

monsoon, 231–33, 246; Oriental Region,

375; outsourcing, 152–53; pastoralism, 255;

Pleistocene Epoch, 91; religious syncretism,

283; rice production, 333; rural settlement,

289; saltwater lakes, 248; shifting

cultivation, 77; spice route, 114; transitory

livestock herding, 79

Assessmentreports, 158–59

Assimilation, 207

Association of American Geographers (AAG),

145, 274

Asthenosphere, 107

Asylum suburbs, 349, 352–53

Atacama, 95–96

Atlantic Ocean, 177, 244, 247, 257–58

Atmosphere,18–20; biogeochemical cycles,

28; boundaries and, 37; climate, 59–60;

Earth, 18, 105; fire, 358; humidity, 176;

soils, 310; stability of, 21

Atmospheric stability,21–23

Aubreville, 98

Australia, 95, 147, 280, 288–90, 292

Australian Region, 375, 375t

Austria, 190

Austro-Hungarian Empire, 190, 308

Automobile manufacturing, 2

Automobiles, 349, 351

Avalanches, 364

Avatar, 154

Ayers Rock, 292

Ayodhya, India, 291

Azerbaijan, 191

Babylonians, 48

Back to the city movement, 140

Bacon, Francis, 255

Bailey, Guy, 209

Balance of power concept, 236

Balkanization,25–27, 55, 87, 188, 308

Balkan Peninsula, 25, 308

Balkan Wars, 25

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