Encyclopedia of Geography Terms, Themes, and Concepts

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Stratus clouds, 64i
Stream erosion and deposition,
325–29, 328i
Stresses, 122–23
Strike-slip fault, 124
Structure, of rocks, 146
Subarctic air mass, 14
Subarctic climate, 63t
Subduction, 258
Sublimation, 175
Submergent coastlines, 69
Subsequent boundaries, 40
Subsistence production, 77–78
Subtropical desert, 62t, 96
Subtropical highs, 16
Subtropical steppe, 62t
Subtropics, 339
Suburbs, 306, 349–50
Sudetenland, 190
Suez Canal, 325
Sulfur dioxide, 19
Sumerian civilization, 81, 185, 350–51
Summer anticyclones, 15
Sunni community in Iraq, 26–27
Sunspots, 314–15
Sun synchronous satellites, 293
Supercell thunderstorms, 342i
Superimposed boundaries, 40
Supranationalism,329–32; centrifugal and
centripetal forces, 57; devolution, 101;
Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), 204;
irredentism, 191; nation-state, 237, 331;
region, 281, 329–30
Supreme Court, U.S., 121–22
Sushi, 131
Suspension, 365
Sustainable development,332–35;
agribusiness, 4–5; capital leakage, 45;
cultural ecology, 85; economic development,
geography of, 110; green belt, 162;
landscape, 199; natural hazards, 239; natural
resources, 241, 332; population, 261
Sweden, 189
Swing riots, 7
Syncline fold, 123
Syria, 296

“Taiheyo Belt,” 224
Taiwan, 191
Tallahassee, Florida, 344
“T and O” map, 49
Tanzania, 223
The Taste of American Place(Shortridge), 128
Taxonomy World Soil Orders, 314t
Technology, in cartography, 52
Tejano South Texas(Arreola), 130
Telecommunications technology, 151
Temperate forests, 35, 132–33
Temperate grasslands, 35–36
Temperate rainforests, 133
Temperature,337–39; air masses, 8;
atmospheric stability and, 21; biomes, 35;
fronts, 135; heating and cooling, 171;
humidity, 175; hydrologic cycle, 181; karst,
193; ocean currents, 243; thunderstorms,
342; weathering and mass wasting, 362
Temple Mount, 291, 292i
Tensional stress, 122–23
Terranes, 259
Terra nullius, 280
Terrestrial magnetism, 106
Terrestrial zoographic region, 375t
Territorial Imperative(Ardrey), 340
Territoriality, 25,339–40; boundaries and, 37,
339; cultural identity, 86, 340; Heartland
Theory, 169; irredentism, 190; Law of the
Sea, 202; nation-state, 235, 339; sacred
space, 291
Territorial sea, 40, 202
Tertiary sector, 303–4
Tex-Mex food, 126, 130
TFR (Total Fertility Rate), 260–61
Thailand, 42
Thar Desert, 278
Thematic maps, 217–18
“A Theory of Migration” (Lee), 270
Thermal infrared sensing, 285, 285t
Thermistor, 337
Thermohaline Circulation, 245i
Thermometer, liquid-in-glass, 337
Thirty Years’ War, 236
Threshold, 54
Thunder, 342

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