Glossary of geography terms including horticulture, GIS, and general geography terms, in isiZulu, Sesotho sa Leboa, English, and Afrikaans. (Version: 10-03-2022)
Concepts:
- #1: abiotic component
- #2: accessibility
- #3: accountability
- #4: accreditation
- #5: acculturation
- #6: acid rain
- #7: adjacency
- #8: adventure tourism
- #9: aerial photography
- #10: agglomeration economy
- #11: aggregation
- #12: agricultural change
- #13: air pollution
- #14: albedo
- #15: alien plant
- #16: alternative tourism
- #17: anthropocentrism
- #18: aquaculture
- #19: aquifer
- #20: area feature
- #21: attraction
- #22: attribute data
- #23: azimuth
- #24: bearing
- #25: biodiversity, biological diversity
- #26: biogeochemical cycle
- #27: biological weathering
- #28: biome
- #29: biosphere
- #30: biotechnology
- #31: buffer
- #32: cadastral maps
- #33: carbon cycle
- #34: carbon dioxide, CO₂
- #35: carbon sequestration
- #36: carrying capacity
- #37: cartesian coordinates
- #38: cell dimension
- #39: CBD, central business district
- #40: channelisation
- #41: chlorophyll
- #42: choropleth maps
- #43: classification
- #44: clay soil
- #45: climate
- #46: climate change
- #47: climate variability
- #48: clip, overlay
- #49: commodification
- #50: community involvement
- #51: complementarity
- #52: conformal projection
- #53: conic projection
- #54: connectivity
- #55: conservation areas
- #56: continuous surface
- #57: convection
- #58: coriolis effect
- #59: CITs, countries in transition
- #60: cylindrical projection
- #61: data model
- #62: database management system, DBMS
- #63: datum
- #64: deforestation
- #65: demarcation
- #66: demarketing
- #67: demographic data
- #68: demonstration effect
- #69: dependency paradigm
- #70: desertification
- #71: destination
- #72: destination image
- #73: developing countries
- #74: development
- #75: DEM, digital elevation model
- #76: digital terrain model, DTM
- #77: digitise
- #78: disaggregation
- #79: dissolve
- #80: dot density maps
- #81: drainage basin
- #82: drought
- #83: dual economy
- #84: eco-lodges
- #85: ecocentrism
- #86: ecological citizenship
- #87: ecological footprint
- #88: ecological niche
- #89: ecology
- #90: economic development
- #91: economic growth
- #92: economic valuation
- #93: ecosystem
- #94: ecosystem diversity
- #95: El Niño
- #96: electromagnetic spectrum
- #97: ellipsoid
- #98: energy
- #99: environment
- #100: environmental auditing
- #101: environmental business
- #102: environmental degradation
- #103: EIA, environmental impact assessment
- #104: environmental justice
- #105: environmental management
- #106: environmental monitoring
- #107: environmental movements
- #108: environmental potential
- #109: environmental resources
- #110: environmentalist
- #111: equal-area classification
- #112: equal-interval classification
- #113: equity
- #114: erosion
- #115: escarpment
- #116: eutrophication
- #117: evaporation
- #118: evapotranspiration
- #119: exploitation
- #120: extinction
- #121: extrapolation
- #122: fauna
- #123: feature generalisation
- #124: feedback loop
- #125: fertility
- #126: first law of thermodynamics
- #127: flora
- #128: food security
- #129: forest decline
- #130: fossil fuel
- #131: genetic engineering
- #132: genetically manipulated organism, GMO
- #133: gentrification
- #134: geocoding
- #135: geodiversity
- #136: geographic coordinate system
- #137: geographic information system, GIS
- #138: global navigation satellite system, GNSS
- #139: Global North
- #140: Global South
- #141: global warming
- #142: globalisation, globalization
- #143: governance
- #144: green political parties
- #145: greenhouse effect
- #146: greenhouse gases
- #147: greening mainstream politics
- #148: habitat destruction
- #149: hazardous waste
- #150: hierarchical diffusion
- #151: host community
- #152: HDI, Human Development Index
- #153: hydrological cycle
- #154: incineration
- #155: Industrial Revolution
- #156: infiltration capacity
- #157: infrastructure
- #158: international conventions
- #159: international protocols
- #160: interpolation
- #161: intersection, overlay
- #162: interval/ratio scale
- #163: intervening opportunity
- #164: invasive plants
- #165: IDW, inverse distance weighted
- #166: ISO 14000
- #167: isoline, isometric line
- #168: kernel mapping
- #169: La Niña
- #170: lambert conformal conic projection
- #171: land degradation
- #172: land use, land-use
- #173: loam
- #174: local community
- #175: location
- #176: macro environment
- #177: magnetic declination
- #178: malnutrition
- #179: map projection
- #180: gravity displacement, mass movement
- #181: meta data
- #182: metropolitan area
- #183: microorganism
- #184: migration
- #185: minimum mapping unit, MMU
- #186: modernisation paradigm
- #187: MAUP, modifiable areal unit problem
- #188: morbidity
- #189: mortality rate
- #190: moving window
- #191: multiplier effect
- #192: natural selection
- #193: nitrogen cycle
- #194: nominal scale
- #195: nuclear energy
- #196: open-source software
- #197: ordinal scale
- #198: OM, organic matter
- #199: orthophoto map
- #200: overlay
- #201: overshoot
- #202: oxygen cycle
- #203: ozone
- #204: pH
- #205: photosynthesis
- #206: pixels
- #207: polarisation
- #208: political instability
- #209: polygon
- #210: population density
- #211: population growth
- #212: population pyramid
- #213: potable
- #214: precautionary principle
- #215: precipitation
- #216: primary data
- #217: profile drawing
- #218: protected areas
- #219: public participation
- #220: PPP, public-private participation
- #221: quaternary economic activities
- #222: raster data model
- #223: recycling
- #224: refugee
- #225: region
- #226: regulation
- #227: relative relief
- #228: remote sensing
- #229: renewable energy
- #230: resolution
- #231: resource management
- #232: resources
- #233: respiration
- #234: responsible tourism
- #235: retail facilities
- #236: risk assessment
- #237: salinisation, salinization
- #238: scientific hypothesis
- #239: scoping
- #240: screening
- #241: second law of thermodynamics
- #242: secondary economic activities
- #243: sedimentary cycle
- #244: selection operation
- #245: services
- #246: social services
- #247: socio-cultural impacts
- #248: soil erosion
- #249: space-in-time perspective
- #250: spaghetti data model
- #251: spatial data
- #252: spatial distribution
- #253: spatial economic development
- #254: spatial economy
- #255: spatial entity
- #256: spatial interaction
- #257: spatial interpolation
- #258: spatial operation
- #259: spatial pattern
- #260: spatial queries
- #261: spatial referencing
- #262: spatial scales
- #263: spatial variation
- #264: species
- #265: stomata
- #266: SEA, strategic environmental assessment
- #267: sustainability
- #268: sustainable development
- #269: sustainable living
- #270: symbiosis
- #271: temporal change
- #272: thematic mapping
- #273: theory
- #274: topocadastral map
- #275: topographical map
- #276: topology
- #277: topsoil
- #278: tourism resources
- #279: transport problems
- #280: Transverse Mercator projection
- #281: turbidity
- #282: undershoot
- #283: union
- #284: Universal transverse Mercator, UTM
- #285: urban biodiversity
- #286: urban ecology
- #287: urbanisation
- #288: utilities
- #289: vector data model
- #290: vulnerability
- #291: waste management
- #292: water conservation
- #293: water quality
- #294: watercourse
- #295: waterlogging
- #296: watershed
- #297: weather
- #298: weathering
- #299: wetlands
- #300: WGS84, World Geodetic System 84
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