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Sunday, February 9, 2020

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Dictionary of Geography ::::

 A ---------- Z


1)

 -aerial photography

 

It is a form of remote sensing employed to capture images of objects using photographic cameras and film from platforms in the atmosphere.

2)

 -advection the term

involves the transfer of
heat energy by horizontal
mass motions through a medium.

3)

 -age structure


It refers to the composition
of a nation based on age groups . Age structure has profound effect on the future of the nation.

4)

 -asthetic landscape


The term is used to explain the beauty of the landscapes are actually according to current taste, as exemplified in the parklands of English country house.

5)

 -agribusiness


The term implies large agricultural operations which are run like an industry.A single business can be concerned with the whole of agricultural output, such as the ownership of land, characterised by very large production units .

6)

 -agroforestry


The agricultural system which incorporates the planting of trees on land where animals are raised like crops.

7)

 -air pollution



It implies the presence in the earths atmosphere .


8)

 -arch In coastal geomorphology


an arch is made when two caves
occurring on either side of a headland are cut until the meet.

9)

  -aquiclude



I
t refers to rock  formations the are impermeable to groundwater.
applied climatology. It is the systematic study of climatology for an operational purpose such as agriculture.

10)

 -applied geomorpholgy



It is the application of meteorological data
to specific down-to-earth problems.

11)

 -apartheid

This term is used to describe 
the system of racial segregation first promulgated ie::

-zone of saturation


-zonal


-zonal soil


-zonal index


-warm front


12)

 -invertebrate


Said of the animal which does not have a backbone.
native species It is the the species which normally exists and reproduces in a specific region of the earth



 -negative feedback

It implies the change in the
state of a system that counteracts the measured effect of the initial alteration.


13) 
 -pole

It refers to the either end of the earth's axis around which the earth rotates for example North and South Poles. The magnetic
poles which are indicated by the needle of a compass


14) 
 -political geography


15) 
 -price 

It refers to the money which a commodity or service is bought or sold. The price mechanism is the way in which supply and demand can regulate economic activities

-runoff


-rural planning

-salinisation


-water consumption



-water balance






 this area of knowledge and gathered information.

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