A
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A horizon
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accordant stream
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actual evapotranspiration
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advection Fog
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afrotropical realm
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air mass
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air mass trajectory and temperature
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air pressure
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albedo
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alfisol
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alluvium
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alpine tundra
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altostratus
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analysis
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andisol
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annual or seasonal temperature lag
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Antarctic realm
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antecedent stream
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anticline
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anticyclone
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aquiclude
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aquifer
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Arctic tundra
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arête
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Aridisol
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asthenosphere
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atmosphere
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atmospheric counter-radiation
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australian realm
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autumnal equinox
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available water
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average sea-level pressure
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axial tilt
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B
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B horizon
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back swamp
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bar and swale topography
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basal slip
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batholith
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bed load
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bedding plane
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biogeographical realm
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biogeography
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biome
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biosphere
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boreal forest (Northern Forest)
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braided channel
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brittle failure
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broadleaf evergreen forest
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bulk density
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burial metamorphism
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C
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C horizon
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calcification
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calorie
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capillary water
carbon cycle
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carbon dioxide
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carbon dioxide
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carbonate
|
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centripetal drainage pattern
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change in soil moisture storage
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change in soil moisture storage
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chatter marks
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chemical weathering
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chemically precipitated sedimentary rock
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chinook
|
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circumpolar vortex
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cirque
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cirrostratus
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cirrus cloud
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clastic sedimentary rock
|
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closed forest
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closed system
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cold ocean current
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compressional wave
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condensation nuclei
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condensation
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conduction
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confined flow
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confined flow
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contact metamorphism
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continental drift
|
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continentality
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continuum of geography
|
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convection
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convergence
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convergent boundary
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core
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Coriolis effect
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country rock
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|
cP air mass
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creep
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crevasse
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cross-sectional area
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crushing
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crust
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cumulonimbus
|
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cumulus
|
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cutoff
|
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cyclone
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D
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|
daily temperature lag
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Davisian Cycle of Erosion
|
|
decomposer
|
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deficit
|
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deficit
|
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deflation
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dendritic drainage pattern
|
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depression storage
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depression storage
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deranged drainage pattern
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desert biome
|
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desertification
dew
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diffuse Shortwave radiation
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dike
|
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dip slip fault
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direct shortwave radiation
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directed pressure
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discharge
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discordant stream
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Divergence
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drainage basin
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drainage divide
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drumlin
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dry Adiabatic Rate
|
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dry desert
dust dome
|
|
dynamic equilibrium
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dynamic equilibrium theory
|
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dynamothermal metamorphism
|
E
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E horizon
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|
earth flow
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|
earth revolution
|
|
ebb current
ecology
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ecosystem
|
|
elastic deformation
|
|
endogenic force
|
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endogenic process
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energy
|
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Entisol
|
|
environmental lapse rate
|
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equilibrium line
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erosion
|
|
esker
|
|
Evaporation
|
|
evaporation
|
|
evaporation
|
|
evaporation
|
|
evapotranspiration
|
|
evapotranspiration
|
|
exogenic force
|
|
Exogenic process
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|
exotic stream
|
|
exotic terrain
|
|
Explanation
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F
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fault
|
|
fault dip
|
|
fault line
|
|
fault Plane
|
|
fault scarp
|
|
field capacity
|
|
firn
|
|
First law of thermodynamics
|
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first order relief feature
flood current
|
|
floodplain
|
|
flow velocity
|
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fog
|
|
folding
|
|
foliated metamorphic rock
|
|
food chain
|
|
food web
|
|
Forest biome
|
|
Friction
|
|
Frontal Fog
|
G
|
|
Geographic Inquiry
|
|
Geography
|
|
glacial drift
|
|
glacial trough
|
|
glaciation
|
|
glacier
|
|
Gleization
|
|
graben
|
|
Granular structure
|
|
Grassland biome
|
|
gravity water
|
|
grooves
|
|
Ground heat transfer
|
|
ground moraine
|
|
groundwater
|
|
groundwater flow rate
|
|
groundwater flow rate
|
|
groundwater zone
|
|
gully erosion
|
H
|
|
habitat
|
|
hanging valley
|
|
Heat
|
|
High pressure
|
|
Histosol
|
|
horn
|
|
horst
|
|
Human Geography
|
|
Humidity
|
|
Humus
|
|
hydraulic gradient
|
|
hydraulic gradient
|
|
hydrograph
|
|
Hydrologic cycle
|
|
hydrologic cycle
|
|
Hydrosphere
|
|
hydrosphere
|
|
hygroscopic water
|
I
|
|
igneous rock
|
|
Inceptisol
|
|
Indomalayan realm
|
|
infiltration
|
|
Insolation
|
|
interception
|
|
interfluve
|
|
interlobate moraine
|
|
intermittent stream
|
|
internal deformation
|
|
Intertropical convergence zone
|
|
Inverted lapse rate of temperature (Inversion)
|
|
Inverted lapse rate of temperature (Inversion)
|
|
Isolated system
|
J
|
|
Jet Stream
|
K
|
|
kame
|
|
kettle
|
|
Kinetic Energy
knickpoint
|
L
|
|
laccolith
|
|
Land/Sea breeze
|
|
land/sea contrasts
|
|
latent energy
|
|
latent heat transfer
|
|
lateral moraine
|
|
laterization
|
|
lithosphere
|
|
lithostatic pressure
loess
|
|
longitudinal profile (stream)
longwave radiation
|
|
low pressure
|
M
|
|
magma
|
|
magnetic reversal
|
|
mantle
|
|
mantle convection currents
|
|
mature stage (stream)
mature stage (thunderstorm)
mass movement
|
|
material addition
|
|
material removal
|
|
material transformation
|
|
material translocation
|
|
meander
|
|
meander scar
|
|
meandering channel
|
|
medial moraine
|
|
Mediterranean Sclerophyllus Woodland
|
|
meridonal flow
|
|
Mesosphere
|
|
mesosphere
|
|
metamorphic rock
|
|
Methane
|
|
Methane
|
|
Midlatitude Broadleaf Deciduous and Mixed Forest
|
|
Midlatitude savanna (Parkland)
|
|
midocean ridge
|
|
mineral
|
|
Mixing ratio
|
|
Mollisol
|
|
Monsoon
|
|
moraine
|
|
Mountain/Valley wind
|
|
mP air mass
|
|
mT air mass
|
|
mud flow
|
N
|
|
natural levee
|
|
Nearctic realm
|
|
neck
|
|
negative feedback
|
|
Neotropical realm
|
|
net biomass productivity
|
|
net radiation
|
|
net shortwave radiation
|
|
niche
|
|
nimbostratus
nitrogen cycle
|
|
nonfoliated metamorphic rock
|
|
normal fault
|
|
Northeast tradewinds
|
|
Northern Coniferous forest
|
O
|
|
O horizon
|
|
oasis
|
|
Observation
|
|
Oceanian realm
|
|
old age stage (stream)
open forest
|
|
Open system
|
|
orbital shell
|
|
outwash plain
|
|
overturned fold
|
|
oxbow lake
|
|
oxide
|
|
Oxisol
oxygen cycle
|
|
Ozone
|
|
|
P
|
|
Palaearctic realm
|
|
Pangea
|
|
parallel drainage pattern
|
|
Parent material
|
|
Particulates
|
|
Particulates
|
|
Ped
|
|
peneplain
percolation
|
|
perennial stream
|
|
pH scale
|
|
Phase change
|
|
photosynthesis
|
|
Physical Geography
|
|
Physical weathering
|
|
plant succession
|
|
plastic deformation
|
|
plate boundary zone
|
|
plate tectonics
|
|
Platy structure
|
|
pluton
|
|
Podzolization
|
|
point bar
|
|
Polar easterlies
|
|
Polar high
|
|
polished bedrock
|
|
Positive feedback
|
|
Potential Energy
|
|
potential evapotranspiration
|
|
potential evapotranspiration
|
|
Prairie
|
|
precipitation
|
|
precipitation
|
|
precipitation
|
|
Prediction
|
|
Pressure gradient
|
|
primary producer
|
|
Principal Gases
|
|
Principal Gases
|
Q
|
|
quarry
|
R
|
|
radial drainage pattern
|
|
Radiation
|
|
Radiation Fog
|
|
rain splash erosion
|
|
recessional limb (hydrograph)
|
|
recessional moraine
|
|
rectangular drainage pattern
|
|
recumbent fold
|
|
regional metamorphism
|
|
Relative humidity
|
|
relief
|
|
respiration
|
|
reverse fault
|
|
rill erosion
|
|
Ring of fire
|
|
rising limb (hydrograph)
|
|
rock
|
|
rock cycle
|
|
rock fall
|
|
rock step
|
|
runoff
|
|
runoff
|
S
|
|
salinization
|
|
saltation
|
|
Santa Ana wind
|
|
saturated adiabatic rate
|
|
Saturation
|
|
Saturation vapor pressure
|
|
Savanna biome
|
|
sea-floor spreading
|
|
Second law of thermodynamics
|
|
second order relief feature
|
|
sediment
|
|
sedimentary rock
|
|
seepage
|
|
selective absorber
|
|
Sensible heat
|
|
Sensible heat transfer
|
|
shear strength
|
|
shear stress
|
|
shear wave
|
|
sheet erosion
|
|
Shortwave radiation
|
|
Shrub desert
|
|
sial
|
|
silicate
|
|
sill
|
|
sima
|
|
sinuosity ratio
|
|
slide
|
|
slump
|
|
Soil forming factors
|
|
Soil horizon
|
|
soil moisture recharge
|
|
soil moisture recharge
|
|
soil moisture storage
|
|
soil moisture storage
|
|
soil moisture utilization
|
|
soil moisture utilization
|
|
soil profile
|
|
soil structure
|
|
soil texture
|
|
soil water
|
|
solar constant
|
|
solution (dissolved) load
|
|
spatial science
|
|
specific heat
|
|
specific humidity
|
|
Spodosol
|
|
spreading boundary
|
|
Spring equinox
|
|
stable air
|
|
staircase lakes
|
|
steady-state equilibrium
|
|
steam Fog
|
|
steppe grassland
|
|
straight channel
|
|
strain
|
|
stratified drift
|
|
Stratosphere
|
|
stratum
|
|
Stratus
|
|
stream (channel) slope ( gradient)
|
|
stream deposition
|
|
stream discharge
|
|
stream discharge
|
|
stream erosion
stream gradation
|
|
stream hydrograph
|
|
stream hydrograph
|
|
stream transportation
|
|
striations
|
|
strike
|
|
strike slip fault
|
|
subduction zone
|
|
subpolar low pressure
|
|
subsolar point
|
|
Subtropical high pressure
|
|
sulfide
|
|
Summer Solstice
|
|
sun angle
|
|
superimposed stream
|
|
surplus
|
|
surplus
|
|
suspended load
|
|
symmetrical fold
|
|
syncline
|
|
system
|
T
|
|
Taiga
|
|
tarn
|
|
tectonic plates
Temperate rain forest (Marine west coast forest)
|
|
temperature
|
|
terminal moraine
|
|
terrestrial longwave radiation
|
|
third order relief feature
|
|
Thorntree and tropical scrub
|
|
thrust fault
|
|
till
|
|
traction
|
|
transform boundary
|
|
transform fault
|
|
transpiration – atmospheric moisture
|
|
transpiration – water balance
|
|
transpiration – biogeography
|
|
trellis drainage pattern
|
|
tributary stream
|
|
tropic level
|
|
Tropical Monsoon/Seasonal Forest and Scrub
|
|
Tropical rain forest
|
|
Tropical savanna
|
|
Tropopause
|
|
Troposphere
|
|
Tundra biome
|
U
|
|
Ultisol
|
|
unconfined flow
|
|
unstable air
|
|
upper-level easterlies
|
|
upper-level westerlies
|
|
upslope Fog
urban heat island
|
V
|
|
vapor pressure
|
|
variable gases
|
|
Vertisol
|
|
vesicles
|
W
|
|
warm ocean current
|
|
water balance
|
|
water table
|
|
Water Vapor
|
|
watershed
|
|
wavelength
|
|
Westerlies
|
|
wetted perimeter
wildlife corridors
|
|
wilting point
|
|
Wind
|
|
Winter Solstice
|
X
|
|
xerophyte
|
Y
|
|
youthful stage (stream)
|
Z
|
|
zonal flow
|
|
zone of ablation
|
|
zone of accumulation
|
|
zone of aeration
|
|
zone of saturation
|