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🗺️World Geography
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437 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your World Geography exam

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A

Access to clean water
Affordable housing policies
African Great Lakes
Afroalpine Vegetation
Agricultural Zones
Agroforestry systems
Air freight
Alexander von Humboldt
Alfred Wegener
Alluvial Plain
Altai Mountains
Amazon Basin
Amazon Rainforest
Ancestor worship
Andes Mountains
Antarctic Circle
Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Antarctic Ice Sheet
Antarctic Treaty System
Appalachian Mountains
Arab Peoples
Arabian Desert
Arabian Peninsula
Arctic Amplification
Arctic Circle
Arctic Coastal States
Arctic Council
Arctic Ocean
Arid climate
Arithmetic density
Asia-Pacific Region
Asylum and refugee policies
Atacama Desert
Atlantic Coastline
Atlantic Forest
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
Atlantic Ocean
Atlas Mountains
Atoll Nations
Australia/Oceania

B

Beaufort Gyre
Bilateral and Multilateral Agreements
Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs)
Biocultural diversity
Biodiversity Index
Biodiversity indexes
Biodiversity indices
Brazilian Highlands
Buffer analysis

C

Cape Floristic Region Hotspot
Carbon emissions
Carpathian Mountains
Cascadia Subduction Zone
Caspian Sea
Circular economy
Climate adaptation
Climate Change Model
Climate models
Climate refugees
Climate-smart agriculture
Climatic adaptation
Coastal erosion
Colonial boundaries
Congo River
Contact Group for the Balkans
Cook Islands
Cosmopolitan identity
Crime prevention through environmental design
Crime rates
Cultural imposition
Cultural Institutions
Cultural preservation
Cultural suppression

D

Danube River
Data reliability