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Mammal
Geography; Physical geography
Group of warm blooded vertebrate animals. Common characteristics found in these organisms include: hair, milk secretion, diaphragm for respiration, lower jaw composed of a single pair of bones, ...
Magnetosphere
Geography; Physical geography
Zone that surrounds the Earth that is influenced by the Earth's magnetic field.
Littoral drift
Geography; Physical geography
The sediment that is transported by waves and currents through beach drift and longshore drift along coastal areas.
Littoral transport
Geography; Physical geography
The process of sediment moving along a coastline. This process has two components: longshore transport and onshore-offshore transport.
Littoral zone
Geography; Physical geography
The zone along a coastline that is between the high and low-water spring tide marks.
Little ice age
Geography; Physical geography
Time period from 1550 to 1850 AD. During this period, global temperatures were at their coldest since the beginning of the Holocene.
Magnetic reversal
Geography; Physical geography
A change in the polarity of the Earth's magnetic field. In the past 4 million years there have been nine reversals.
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