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Hot spot
Geography; Geography

An area in the middle of a lithospheric plate where magma rises from the mantle and erupts at the Earth's surface. Volcanoes sometimes occur above a hot spot.

Hemisphere
Geography; Geography

Half of the Earth, usually conceived as resulting from the division of the globe into two equal parts of either north and south or east and west.

Hazardous waste
Geography; Geography

Unwanted by-products remaining in the environment and posing an immediate potential hazard to human life.

Hearth
Geography; Geography

The source area of any innovation. The source area from which an idea, crop, artifact, or good is diffused to other areas.

Hinterland
Geography; Geography

The area tributary to a place and linked to that place through lines of exchange, or interaction.

Horizon
Geography; Geography

A distinct layer of soil encountered in vertical section.

Humus
Geography; Geography

Partially decomposed organic soil material.

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