This glossary of geography terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in geography and related fields, including Earth science, oceanography, cartography, and human geography, as well as those describing spatial dimension, topographical features, natural resources, and the collection, analysis, and visualization of geographic data. It is split across two articles:
Related terms may be found in Glossary of geology, Glossary of agriculture, Glossary of environmental science, and Glossary of astronomy.
Also amphidrome and tidal node.
Also anastomosed stream.
Also anoecumene.
Also antecedent river and antecedent drainage.
Also aquafer.
Also wash.
Also exposure.
Also bahada.
Also corridor.
Also rimaye or simply bergorschrund.
Also biodiversity.
Also marine geyser.
Also mire, quagmire, or muskeg.
Also bourn, born, borne, and burn.
Also breaker.
Also lowveld, or simply bushorveld.
Also cadaster.
Also canebreak.
Also gorgeorcañon.
Also key.
Also strait.
Also shott and shatt.
Also corrieorcwm.
Also abrasion coast.
Also coastline, seashore, and seaboard.
Also gapornotch.
Variously comb, coomb, coombe, and cumb.
Also compass star, wind rose, or rose of the winds.
Also isolineorisopleth.
Also frost churning.
Also impoundment.
Also datum levelordatum line.
Also debouche.
Also gentilic.
Also dependent territory.
Also reg, serir, gibber, saï, and desert mosaic.
Also desert patina, rock varnish, and rock rust.
Also social trail.
Also Atlantic-type coastline.
Also vrtače and shakehole.
Also down and downs.
Also catchment, drainage area, river basin, water basin, or watershed.
Also ridgeline, watershed, water parting, water divide, or simply divide.
Also re-entrant.
Also brash ice.
Also called the Earth sciencesorgeoscience.
Also called an ecological region.
Also oecumene.
Also endoreic basin, closed basin, or terminal basin.
Also entrepotortransshipment port.
Also reg and hamada.
Also os, eskar, or eschar.
Also inversac.
Also land-fast ice and shore-fast ice.
Also Tobler's First Law of Geography.
Also fiord.
Also bottomland.
Also hypocenter.
Also cross-border worker and frontier worker.
Also geospatial data, georeferenced information, and geoinformation.
Also geodetics.
Also geodetic network, reference network, or control point network.
Also geodetic system, geodetic reference datum, or geodetic reference system.
Also GIScience.
Also geographical momentum.
Also geospatial science.
Also clearing.
Also world city, power city, or alpha city.
Also slope, incline, gradient, pitch, rise, or mainfall.
Also orthodrome.
Also orthodromic distance.
Also greenway.
Also grid variationorgrivation.
Also tablemount.
Also hammada.
Also heathland.
Also simply hedge.
Sometimes used interchangeably with upland.
Also knoll.
Also hog's backorhogsback.
Also skyline.
Also humanist geography.
Also continental glacier.
Also clinometer, declinometer, tilt meter, gradient meter, slope gauge, and level gauge.
Also ingressed coast and depressed coast.
Also monadnock.
Also integrative geography, environmental geography, or human–environment geography.
Also intermediate directionsorordinal directions.
Also intermountain.
Also isle.
Also isostatic equilibrium.
Also jhoom cultivationorslash-and-burn agriculture.
Also magmatic water.
Also kettle holeorpothole.
Also kil.
Also nickpoint.
Also colc and colk.
Also Gaussian process regression and Wiener–Kolmogorov prediction.
Also dike, embankment, floodbank, and stopbank.
Also tectonic plates.
Also longshore current and littoral drift.
Also magnetic variation.
Also dip angle and magnetic inclination.
Also trunk.
Also index map.
Also marcheormark; (pl.) marchesormarchlands.
Also territorial sea, marine belt, and maritime belt.
Those waters along a nation's coast within which the nation has exclusive jurisdiction except for the right of innocent passage of foreign vessels.[10] See also territorial waters.Also meander scarp.
Also median moraine.
Also snowmelt.
Also equatorial cylindrical orthomorphic map projection.
Also metro areaorcommuter belt.
Also moorland.
Also mud flat and tidal flat.
Also debris floworlahar.
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