Geography dictionary by Futura-Sciences

Alphabetical index

Antarctic The Antarctic is one of the Earth's continents. It is mainly ...	Aral sea The Aral sea is located in eastern Europe, on the frontier ...
Archipelago Archipelago is from the Greek archipelagos; the term means ...	Arctic The Arctic is a region of the Earth at the North Pole. It ...
Biome A biome is a vast biogeographic area defined by its climate, ...	CET Time Central European Time (CET). Other acronyms used include HEC ...
Chott A chott is a floodable ring around an enclosed salty ...	Circumpolar Arctic Circumpolar Arctic refers to all countries at or above the ...
Desertification Desertification is the progressive degradation process of a ...	Fjord A fjord is a very deep flooded glacial valley with steeply ...
Flood plain The flood plain of a river is the zone in which flood water ...	Foreshore The foreshore, also called intertidal zone, is the zone ...
Geodesics Geodesics is the science of studying the shape and size of ...	Geoid The geoid is an equipotential surface of the gravity field ...
Glass Although some glasses are considered to be minerals, they ...	Hotspot The term hotspot is used in several domains, especially in ...
Ice-shelf An ice shelf is large piece of ice floe (floating ice) ...	Isthmus An isthmus is a strip of land joining two coasts.
Lake Titicaca Lake Titicaca lies between the borders of Bolivia and Peru ...	Land surveyor A land surveyor is a professional who uses geometrical ...