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Geography

The study of physical characteristics of earth and the distribution and effects of life on earth, especially that of humans.

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interception

Geography; Physical geography

When precipitation deposits onto a surface that is not the actual land such as vegetation or animals.

fault

Geography; Physical geography

A break in the continuity of rock strata. May be due to tension, compression, and/or horizontal tearing.

terminal moraine

Geography; Physical geography

Marks the furthest point the glacier reached as it ulldozed' material ahead of the ice mass.

hadley cell

Geography; Physical geography

That portion of the tricellular model of air circulation where air rises at the equator due to convection, spreads in the upper troposphere and then sinks over the tropics before ...

ice wedge

Geography; Physical geography

When temperature fall below 15蚓, ice in soil contracts. This causes cracks to open in the ground. These may fill with water which then freezes to form an ice wedge. During ...

oolith

Geography; Physical geography

A calcareous sphere, approximately 1 mm in diameter, formed by precipitation of concentric layers of calcium carbonate around a nucleus such as a grain of sand or shell fragment ...