Geography

net primary productivity

Net primary productivity, or NPP, is gross primary productivity minus the rate of energy loss to metabolism and maintenance. ...

geoeconomics

Definition of geo-economics 1 : the combination of economic and geographic factors relating to international trade. 2 : a ...

imagined geographies

Imagined geographies refers to the perception of a space created through certain imagery, texts, and/or discourses. For Said, ...

urban sprawl

urban sprawl, also called sprawl or suburban sprawl, the rapid expansion of the geographic extent of cities and towns, often ...

farm fragmentation

Land fragmentation can be defined as a situation where a farming household possesses several non-contiguous land plots, often ...

deciduous forest

A deciduous forest is a type of forest dominated by trees that lose their foliage at the end of the growing season. This is in ...

surface boundary layer

(Also called constant flux layer, surface layer.) A layer of air of order tens of meters thick adjacent to the ground where ...

toponymy

A toponym is the name of a place. Boston, Australia, and Montreal are all toponyms. Words beginning with topo usually have to ...

island biogeography

Insular biogeography or island biogeography is a field within biogeography that examines the factors that affect the species ...

ferricrete

Ferricrete is a very popular product used for driveways and pathways in the hills because it is a hard, erosion-resistant ...

Khamsin

According to Yuji Korekado in Volume 542 of Dengeki PlayStation, Khamsin was originally meant to be one of members of the ...

spectacle

Definition of spectacle 1a : something exhibited to view as unusual, notable, or entertaining especially : an eye-catching or ...

fault breccia

Fault breccia ( /?br?t?i?/ or /?br??i?/; Italian for “breach”), or tectonic breccia, is a breccia (a rock type ...

humidity

Humidity is a measure of the amount of water vapor in the air. Relative humidity measures the amount of water in the air in ...

seismic

Definition of seismic 1 : of, subject to, or caused by an earthquake also : of or relating to an earth vibration caused by ...

World Trade Organization

In brief, the World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only international organization dealing with the global rules of trade. ...

endogenous growth theory

Endogenous growth theory maintains that economic growth is primarily the result of internal forces, rather than external ones. ...

participatory GIS

Participatory GIS (PGIS) or public participation geographic information system (PPGIS) is a participatory approach to spatial ...

Moho discontinuity

The Mohorovi?i? discontinuity (/mo?h??ro?v?t??t?/ MOH-h?-ROH-vitch-itch, Croatian: [moxor?i?t?it?]), usually referred to as ...

sial

SIAL Acronym Definition SIAL Silica and Aluminium (earth’s crust upper shell) SIAL Sana’a Institute for ...

estuary

Definition of estuary : a water passage where the tide meets a river current especially : an arm of the sea at the lower end ...

morphodynamics

Morphodynamics is the process by which morphology affects hydrodynamics in such a way as to influence the further evolution of ...