Encyclopedia of Geography Terms, Themes, and Concepts

Folding and Faulting

Folk Culture

Foodways

Forests

Friction of Distance

Fronts

Gentrification

Geographic Information Systems

Geomorphology

Geopolitics

Gerrymandering

Globalization

Global Positioning System

Global Warming

Grasslands

Green Belt

Groundwater

Heartland Theory

Heating and Cooling

Hinterland

Humidity

Hurricanes

Hydrologic Cycle

Imperialism

Infant Mortality Rate

Irredentism

Karst

Landscape

Latitude and Longitude

Law of the Sea

Lingua Franca

Linguistic Geography

Location

Locational Analysis

Malthusian Theory

Map

Map Projections

Medical Geography

Megalopolis

Mental Maps

Middle Latitude Cyclones

Migration

Monsoon

Nation-State

Natural Hazards

Natural Resources

Ocean Currents

Oceans

Organic Theory

Particularism

Pastoralism

Plate Tectonics

Population

Possibilism

Precipitation

Pre-industrial City Model

Primate City

Purchasing Power Parity

Push-Pull Concept

Quantitative Revolution

Rain Shadow Effect

Region

Religious Syncretism

Remote Sensing

Rimland Theory

Rural Settlement

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