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Bank-caving

Geography; Physical geography

Collapse of stream bank material into a stream channel.

Bajada

Geography; Physical geography

Consecutive series of alluvial fans forming along the edge of a linear mountain range. Surface of this feature undulates in a rolling fashion as one moves from the centre of one alluvial fan to ...

Biogeography

Geography; Physical geography

Field of physical geography that studies the spatial pattern of living organisms.

Biogeochemical cycling

Geography; Physical geography

Cycling of a single element, compound or chemicals by various abiotic and biotic processes through the various stores found in the biosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.

Big crunch

Geography; Physical geography

Collapse of the Universe into its original form before the Big Bang. At the end of this process matter, energy, space, and time will not exist.

Theory that suggests that about 15 billion years ago all of the matter and energy in the Universe was concentrated into an area smaller than a atom. At this instant, matter, energy, space and time ...

Beaufort wind scale

Geography; Physical geography

Descriptive system that determines wind speed by noting the effect of the wind on the environment. Originally developed for use at sea by Admiral Beaufort of the British Navy in 1806.