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What is Air Mass in Geography?

Air Mass is a homogeneous mass of air covering over a considerable area of the surface of earth. Air masses are classified according to the regions from where...

October 30, 2017

What is Agonic Line in Geography?

Agonic Line in Geography is a line on a map which joins places of zero magnetic declination. Generally, the declination increases with increasing distance from the agonic line...

October 30, 2017

What is Aggradation in Geography?

Aggradation is a process that refers to build up the land surface by deposition of solid material in its lower areas. Mostly referring to a river in which...

October 30, 2017

How Agglomerate is different from Volcanic Ash?

A mass of coarse rock fragments or blocks of Lava formed by volcanic eruptions. Mostly the fragments are angular, because of their greater size the agglomerate differs from...

October 30, 2017

Why Aftershocks occur after Earthquake?

Aftershocks refer to vibrations of the earth’s crust after the main earthquake waves have passed. It happens at or near the same Seismic Focus, due to minor adjustments...

October 30, 2017

What is an Advection Fog?

There are  different types of fog such as radiation fog, advection fog, valley fog, and freezing fog.  fog that is formed during the moving of air horizontally over a cool surface and is thus cooled...

October 30, 2017

How Advection is different from Convection?

Advection refers to the transmission by horizontal movement; the transfer of heat by horizontal movement of the air-in distinction from Convection, in which the movement is vertical. For...

October 30, 2017

What kind of life survives in Abyssal regions?

Abyssal refers to ‘belonging to the lowest depths of the Oceans. In usual term, the abyssal region has a depth greater than about 4,000 m-but its limit cannot...

October 30, 2017

What is Abrasion in Geography?

The process of depletion of part of the earth’s surface by the action of wind, water, or ice, by the way moving debris, e.g., sand, as an abrasive...

October 30, 2017

Who are abos in Australia?

Aborigines are the people who are believed to be the original inhabitants of a region i.e., those who were found living in the region when it was first...

October 30, 2017

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