Human geography

Human geography

Geographical events related to human actions.

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attribute

Geography; Human geography

Used in statistics to denote a feature that is confined to the nominal scale; i.e. the feature is either present or absent. For example, a city may or may not display the following attributes: an ...

The process whereby the load particles of rivers, winds and waves are reduced in size and become more rounded, as a result of continual impacts between individual particles. The effects of attrition ...

automation

Geography; Human geography

A system of automatic machine control extending over an entire series of manufacturing operations. Such systems are now widely used in manufacturing - for example, in the motor vehicle industry. Cf ...

autonomy

Geography; Human geography

The power or right of self-government; the attribute of an independent state or organization.

autotroph

Geography; Human geography

A self-feeding organism (e.g. a plant) capable of combining solar energy with salts derived from the soil to form sugars via photosynthesis. Autotrophs form the first trophic level in the food chain.

avalanche

Geography; Human geography

The rapid descent of a large mass of rock, ice and snow (sometimes all three) down a steep mountain slope. Avalanches occur most commonly in winter and spring. Snow avalanches in particular form ...

axial belt

Geography; Human geography

A corridor along which is concentrated much of a country's population, economic wealth and urban development; the axial belt of Britain, for example, extends from the Greater London area ...