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polder

Geography; Physical geography

Reclaimed land created by the construction of an embankment or dyke to hold back water that would otherwise flood the new surface.

spread effect

Geography; Physical geography

The transfer of resources away from a core area to a peripheral area due to diseconomies of scale.

ped

Geography; Physical geography

A structured unit of soil created when particles become grouped and bound together. Different shapes of unit occur under different conditions: crumb, block, plate, column and prism.

One which maintains its course through an area in which precipitation is not enough to support channel flow. Flow is instead maintained by high volume source areas such as a body of water, or area of ...

isostatic depression

Geography; Physical geography

The sinking of a landmass due to the overlying weight of ice.

stevenson screen

Geography; Physical geography

A white, usually wooden, box with louvre sides and raised on stilts used to hold thermometers at weather recording stations.

latent heat

Geography; Physical geography

Release of heat during a change of state. Condensation of water releases latent heat to the atmosphere because it no longer needs the heat energy that was put in to change it from liquid to gas in ...