Human geography

Human geography

Geographical events related to human actions.

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anchor tenant

Geography; Human geography

A term used in retailing to describe a shop that, because of its reputation, may be expected to draw large numbers of customers to a shopping centre and so benefit the smaller and less well-known ...

anemometer

Geography; Human geography

An instrument used to measure wind speed, commonly comprising three cups attached to a central pivot that rotates to record the wind speed. Wind speed is usually given in knots or km per hour.

The natural angle of rest of fragments of rock occupying a slope. The fragments may be derived either from weathering of the underlying rock, or may have fallen on to the slope from a free face above ...

annular drainage

Geography; Human geography

A drainage pattern in which the tributary streams follow arcuate courses determined by lines of weakness in the underlying rock structure. Annular drainage is thus characteristic of dissected domes ...

anomaly

Geography; Human geography

The departure of any element or feature from uniformity or from a normal state, used particularly in meteorology in connection with temperature, and in oceanography in connection with salinity. For ...

antecedent drainage

Geography; Human geography

A process of drainage development in which an ancient river is able to maintain its course across more recently folded or faulted structures without being 'diverted' by the new structures. A ...

anticline

Geography; Human geography

An upfold in rocks resulting from compressive stresses in the Earth's crust. The strata dip in opposite directions from the central line, or axis, of the anticline. Anticlines may be symmetrical or ...