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Reality Theory: Geoscience&Ecology[edit]

1931 China floods

1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia

Abiotic component

Abrasion (geology)

Abrupt climate change

Absolute dating

Abundance (ecology)

Acclimatization

Activated sludge

Adaptive radiation

Aeolian landform

Aeolian processes

Aerial photography

Aeronautical chart

Agonistic behaviour

Agricultural land

Alcohol by volume

Alcoholic drink

Allele frequency

Allopatric speciation

Allotment (gardening)

Alpha (ethology)

Alternatives to Darwinian evolution

Altruism (biology)

Ambient pressure

Ambush predator

Anaerobic digestion

Anchor (climbing)

Animal breeding

Animal coloration

Animal communication

Animal husbandry

Animal identification

Animal locomotion

Animal migration

Animal navigation

Animal sexual behaviour

Animal slaughter

Animal training

Antarctic Circle

Antarctic Circumpolar Current

Anti-predator adaptation

Apparent temperature

Aquatic ecosystem

Aquatic locomotion

Aqueduct (water supply)

Arboreal locomotion

Arctic exploration

Arctic methane emissions

Arctic oscillation

Artificial island

Associated petroleum gas

Assortative mating

Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

Atmosphere of Earth

Atmospheric carbon cycle

Atmospheric chemistry

Atmospheric circulation

Atmospheric convection

Atmospheric escape

Atmospheric instability

Atmospheric model

Atmospheric pressure

Atmospheric science

Atmospheric sounding

Atmospheric temperature

Atmospheric tide

Atterberg limits

Australia (continent)

Australopithecus

Autocatalytic set

Background radiation

Bacterial phylodynamics

Bait (luring substance)

Balancing selection

Banff National Park

Bateman's principle

Batesian mimicry

Batter (cooking)

Bayesian inference in phylogeny

Beach evolution

Beach nourishment

Bearing (navigation)

Behavioral ecology

Bengal famine of 1943

Benthic boundary layer

Binomial nomenclature

Bioaccumulation

Biodiversity loss

Biogeochemical cycle

Biogeochemistry

Biogeographic realm

Biological dispersal

Biological interaction

Biological ornament

Biological pest control

Biological pump

Biological rules

Biological soil crust

Biological specificity

Biomass (ecology)

Biomineralization

Biophysical environment

Biosequestration

Biostratigraphy

Biotic component

Birkeland current

Blanching (cooking)

Block (meteorology)

Blowhole (geology)

Blowout (well drilling)

Blowout preventer

Botanical garden

Bottled oxygen (climbing)

Boundary current

Breakwater (structure)

Browning (partial cooking)

Browsing (herbivory)

Built environment

Buoyancy compensator (diving)

Cambrian explosion

Camellia sinensis

Carbon capture and storage

Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere

Carbon fixation

Carbon sequestration

Carbonated water

Cardinal direction

Carnivorous plant

Carrying capacity

Cartographic design

Cascade effect (ecology)

Catch and release

Celestial navigation

Cellular agriculture

Center of origin

Centers of action

Channel (geography)

Character displacement

Cheating (biology)

Chemical defense

Chicken as food

Chinese famine of 1942–1943

Chip (snack type)

Chronological dating

Circle of latitude

Circumnavigation

Class (biology)

Clathrate hydrate

Clear-air turbulence

Climate change feedback

Climate change mitigation

Climate engineering

Climate sensitivity

Climate variability and change

Climbing harness

Climbing protection

Cline (biology)

Closed ecological system

Cloud condensation nuclei

Co-operation (evolution)

Coagulation (water treatment)

Coalbed methane

Coalescent theory

Coastal engineering

Coastal erosion

Coastal flooding

Coastal management

Coexistence theory

Coffee preparation

Cold and heat adaptations in humans

Collar (animal)

Collective animal behavior

Colonisation (biology)

Colony (biology)

Columbian exchange

Combine harvester

Commercial fishing

Communal roosting

Community (ecology)

Community gardening

Companion planting

Competition (biology)

Competitive exclusion principle

Completion (oil and gas wells)

Computational phylogenetics

Computer recycling

Conservation agriculture

Conservation biology

Conservation officer

Conserved sequence

Constructed wetland

Consumer–resource interactions

Continental climate

Continental collision

Continental crust

Continental drift

Continental margin

Continental shelf

Controlled burn

Convergence zone

Convergent boundary

Convergent evolution

Cooperative breeding

Coordinated Universal Time

Core–mantle boundary

Core–mantle differentiation

Cork (material)

Course (navigation)

Courtship display

Crawling (human)

Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event

Crop desiccation

Crust (geology)

Cumulonimbus cloud

Curing (food preservation)

Curing of tobacco

Cutting (plant)

Daylight saving time

Dead zone (ecology)

Deception in animals

Deep geological repository

Deep sea mining

Deep-sea exploration

Deepwater drilling

Defensible space (fire control)

Deimatic behaviour

Demographic transition

Demographic trap

Demographics of the world

Dendrochronology

Denitrification

Denitrifying bacteria

Density altitude

Density dependence

Deposition (geology)

Depression (geology)

Desertification

Diatomaceous earth

Diffuse sky radiation

Digital elevation model

Directed panspermia

Direction finding

Directional drilling

Directional selection

Disassortative mating

Discontinuity (geotechnical engineering)

Display (zoology)

Disruptive selection

Distraction display

Disturbance (ecology)

Diver navigation

Divergent boundary

Diversification rates

Diversity index

Diving cylinder

Diving equipment

Diving regulator

Domain (biology)

Domestic turkey

Domestication of animals

Dominance (ethology)

Dominance hierarchy

Doomsday argument

Dough conditioner

Douglas sea scale

Drainage system (agriculture)

Drainage system (geomorphology)

Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union

Dry cask storage

Dynamic energy budget theory

Dynamic positioning

Early expansions of hominins out of Africa

Early human migrations

Earth system science

Earth's energy budget

Earth's magnetic field

Earth's rotation

Earthquake swarm

Eastern Hemisphere

Ecological collapse

Ecological light pollution

Ecological network

Ecological niche

Ecological pyramid

Ecological resilience

Ecological stability

Ecological succession

Ecosystem diversity

Ecosystem ecology

Ecosystem engineer

Ecosystem model

Ecosystem services

Eddy covariance

Edible mushroom

Effective population size

Effective stress

Effusive eruption

Ekman transport

El Niño–Southern Oscillation

Electronic waste

Elevational diversity gradient

Endangered species

Energy flow (ecology)

Engineering geology

Environmental chemistry

Environmental degradation

Environmental engineering

Environmental monitoring

Environmental radioactivity

Environmental remediation

Environmental science

Epidemiological transition

Equation of time

Error catastrophe

Error threshold (evolution)

European and American voyages of scientific exploration

Evapotranspiration

Evidence of common descent

Evolution of bacteria

Evolution of human intelligence

Evolution of mammals

Evolution of sexual reproduction

Evolution of tetrapods

Evolutionary arms race

Evolutionary biology

Evolutionary developmental biology

Evolutionary history of life

Evolutionary landscape

Evolutionary mismatch

Evolutionary pressure

Evolutionary radiation

Excavation (archaeology)

Explosive eruption

Extended evolutionary synthesis

Extensive farming

Extinction debt

Extinction event

Extinction threshold

Extinction vortex

Extra-pair copulation

Extraction of petroleum

Extraterrestrial atmosphere

Extraterrestrial life

Extraterrestrial liquid water

Extratropical cyclone

Extreme weather

Family (biology)

Famine in India

Famines in Ethiopia

Farmer-managed natural regeneration

Fault (geology)

Fecundity selection

Fermentation in food processing

Fermentation in winemaking

Field (agriculture)

Figure of the Earth

First voyage of James Cook

Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection

Fisher's principle

Fisherian runaway

Fishing industry

Fishing techniques

Fitness (biology)

Fitness-density covariance

Fixation (population genetics)

Fixed action pattern

Floating production storage and offloading

Flocking (behavior)

Flower preservation

Flowering plant

Fluid flow through porous media

Fluvial processes

Fly-killing device

Flying and gliding animals

Food contaminant

Food irradiation

Food presentation

Food preservation

Food processing

Force of mortality

Forest degradation

Forest gardening

Forest management

Formation of rocks

Fossils of the Burgess Shale

Fractional crystallization (geology)

Fracture (geology)

Fracture (mineralogy)

Frequency-dependent selection

Freshwater ecosystem

Fruit preserves

Future of Earth

Gaia hypothesis

Galápagos National Park

Gelatin dessert

Gene-centered view of evolution

General circulation model

Generation time

Genetic assimilation

Genetic distance

Genetic divergence

Genetic diversity

Genetic hitchhiking

Genetic variability

Genetic variance

Genetic variation

Genetically modified bacteria

Genetically modified crops

Genetically modified food

Genetically modified organism

Geographic coordinate system

Geographic information system

Geographical distance

Geographical zone

Geologic time scale

Geological formation

Geology of Mars

Geology of solar terrestrial planets

Geology of the Moon

Geomagnetic reversal

Geomagnetic storm

Geophysical survey

Geophysical survey (archaeology)

Geostrophic current

Geostrophic wind

Geotechnical engineering

Geotechnical investigation

Glacial lake outburst flood

Glass recycling

Global temperature record

Global wind patterns

Gompertz–Makeham law of mortality

GPS navigation device

GPS tracking unit

Gram-negative bacteria

Gram-positive bacteria

Grandfather clock

Gravity of Earth

Great Barrier Reef

Great Bengal famine of 1770

Great Chinese Famine

Great Famine (Ireland)

Great Famine of 1315–1317

Great Famine of 1876–1878

Great Northern Expedition

Great Oxygenation Event

Great-circle navigation

Greenhouse and icehouse Earth

Greenhouse effect

Greenhouse gas removal

Greenwich Mean Time

Gregorian calendar

Ground-penetrating radar

Groundwater pollution

Groundwater remediation

Group selection

Habitat conservation

Habitat destruction

Habitat fragmentation

Hand-pollination

Handicap principle

Handline fishing

Hardy–Weinberg principle

Harvester (forestry)

Hazardous waste

Heading (navigation)

Herbaceous plant

Hevea brasiliensis

High-altitude adaptation in humans

High-pressure area

Hiking equipment

History of Antarctica

History of cartography

History of Earth

History of human migration

History of Oceania

Holocene extinction

Hologenome theory of evolution

Homology (biology)

Horse latitudes

Host–parasite coevolution

Hotspot (geology)

Human evolution

Human geography

Human impact on the environment

Human migration

Human overpopulation

Human population planning

Human settlement

Human sex ratio

Human uses of animals

Human uses of living things

Human–wildlife conflict

Humboldt Current

Hunter-gatherer

Hutch (animal cage)

Hybrid (biology)

Hydraulic fracturing

Hydraulic mining

Hydrocarbon exploration

Hydrographic survey

Hydrothermal explosion

Hydrothermal vent

Hypercycle (chemistry)

Hyperspectral imaging

Ideal free distribution

Igneous differentiation

In situ chemical oxidation

Inclusive fitness

Inclusive fitness in humans

Indian famine of 1896–1897

Indian famine of 1899–1900

Industrial agriculture

Industrial waste

Industrial wastewater treatment

Inertial navigation system

Infant food safety

Infant mortality

Infanticide (zoology)

Infiltration (hydrology)

Infiltration/Inflow

Insect migration

Insect repellent

Instrumental temperature record

Insular biogeography

Integrated pest management

Intensive animal farming

Intensive crop farming

Intensive farming

Intercalation (timekeeping)

Intermediate disturbance hypothesis

International Atomic Time

International Date Line

International Standard Atmosphere

Interplate earthquake

Interspecific competition

Intertidal zone

Intertropical Convergence Zone

Intragenomic conflict

Intraplate earthquake

Intraspecific competition

Introduced species

Invasive species

Inversion (meteorology)

Irrigation sprinkler

Japanese garden

Joint (geology)

Julian calendar

Keystone species

Kingdom (biology)

Köppen climate classification

Labyrinthulomycetes

Lake-effect snow

Lamb and mutton

Land degradation

Land reclamation

Landscape architecture

Landscape design

Landscape ecology

Landslide mitigation

Large igneous province

Last universal common ancestor

Latitudinal gradients in species diversity

Law of superposition

Leavening agent

Level (instrument)

Life expectancy

Life history theory

Lightning strike

Lineage (evolution)

Linkage disequilibrium

Liquorice (confectionery)

List of domesticated animals

List of natural disasters by death toll

Livestock branding

Local extinction

Longline fishing

Longshore drift

Lotka–Volterra equations

Low-alcohol beer

Low-pressure area

Lunisolar calendar

Lustre (mineralogy)

Magellan's circumnavigation

Magnetic anomaly

Magnetic declination

Major explorations after the Age of Discovery

Malting process

Mantle (geology)

Mantle convection

Marchantiophyta

Marine biogeochemical cycles

Marine chronometer

Marine ecosystem

Marine food web

Marine habitats

Marine microbiome

Marine microorganisms

Marine pollution

Marine primary production

Marine sediment

Marine weather forecasting

Mark and recapture

Matrix population models

Maximum parsimony (phylogenetics)

Mean radiant temperature

Measurement of biodiversity

Mechanical screening

Mechanical watch

Mechanised agriculture

Mediterranean Sea

Megathrust earthquake

Membrane bioreactor

Mercator projection

Meridian (geography)

Mesoscale convective complex

Mesoscale meteorology

Metabolic theory of ecology

Metamorphic rock

Meteorological instrumentation

Methane clathrate

Methane emissions

Microbial consortium

Microbial ecology

Microbial population biology

Microchip implant (animal)

Micropaleontology

Micropropagation

Mid-ocean ridge

Milankovitch cycles

Milk substitute

Miller–Urey experiment

Mineral physics

Mineral processing

Minimum viable population

Mining engineering

Mobbing (animal behavior)

Models of DNA evolution

Modern synthesis (20th century)

Mohs scale of mineral hardness

Molecular clock

Molecular ecology

Molecular evolution

Molecular phylogenetics

Moment magnitude scale

Monogamy in animals

Mosquito control

Most recent common ancestor

Mound-building termites

Mountain formation

Multibeam echosounder

Multicellular organism

Multilateration

Multispectral image

Municipal solid waste

Mustard (condiment)

Muster (livestock)

Mutualism (biology)

Mycoremediation

Müllerian mimicry

Nanoremediation

Natural disaster

Natural environment

Natural landscape

Natural resource

Natural selection

Navigation system

Negative selection (natural selection)

Neutral mutation

Neutral theory of molecular evolution

Niche apportionment models

Niche construction

Niche differentiation

Nickel–Strunz classification

Nicotiana tabacum

Nitrifying bacteria

Nitrogen fixation

Nixtamalization

No-till farming

Nomadic pastoralism

Nomenclature codes

Non-directional beacon

Non-renewable resource

Non-vascular plant

North Atlantic oscillation

North Magnetic Pole

Northeast Passage

Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–1879

Northern Hemisphere

Northwest Passage

Nuclear fallout

Numerical weather prediction

Nutrition transition

Ocean acidification

Ocean chemistry

Ocean exploration

Ocean general circulation model

Oceanic carbon cycle

Offshore drilling

Offshore geotechnical engineering

Oil well control

Olfactory navigation

Onsite sewage facility

Open pollination

Open space reserve

Open-field system

Open-pit mining

Optimal foraging theory

Optimality model

Orbital forcing

Order (biology)

Ore concentrate

Organic farming

Organisms at high altitude

Ornamental plant

Outdoor cooking

Outline of food preparation

Overconsumption

Overexploitation

Ozone depletion and climate change

Paleoclimatology

Paper recycling

Parallel evolution

Parapatric speciation

Parental investment

Partial melting

Particulate organic matter

Patterned ground

Patterns in nature

Pen (enclosure)

Perennial plant

Peripatric speciation

Permafrost carbon cycle

Permeability (earth sciences)

Permian–Triassic extinction event

Persistent organic pollutant

Pest (organism)

Petroleum engineering

Petroleum geology

Petroleum reservoir

Phosphorus cycle

Phreatic eruption

Phreatomagmatic eruption

Phylogenetic network

Phylogenetic nomenclature

Phylogenetic tree

Physical geography

Physical impacts of climate change

Phytoremediation

Pioneer species

Pitch (sports field)

Planetary boundaries

Planetary boundary layer

Planetary differentiation

Planetary geology

Planetary science

Planetary surface

Plant microbiome

Plant propagation

Plant tissue culture

Plants in space

Plastic pollution

Plastic recycling

Plate tectonics

Plesiomorphy and symplesiomorphy

Poaching (cooking)

Point of interest

Points of the compass

Polar amplification

Polar exploration

Polar regions of Earth

Polygyny in animals

Polygyny threshold model

Polymorphism (biology)

Polyp (zoology)

Population ageing

Population bottleneck

Population control

Population decline

Population density

Population dynamics

Population ecology

Population genetics

Population growth

Population pyramid

Population size

Population stratification

Population structure (genetics)

Pore water pressure

Portuguese discoveries

Position fixing

Position resection

Positioning system

Post-glacial rebound

Potential temperature

Potential vorticity

Poultry farming

Pre-modern human migration

Precision agriculture

Pressure cooking

Pressure gradient

Pressure system

Pressure-gradient force

Prevailing winds

Primary production

Primary succession

Primitive (phylogenetics)

Primitive equations

Primordial soup

Principle of faunal succession

Productivity (ecology)

Professional hunter

Proglacial lake

Proxy (climate)

Psilocybin mushroom

Psychoactive plant

Pumping station

Punctuated equilibrium

Pursuit predation

Pyroclastic flow

Quantitative genetics

R/K selection theory

Radar navigation

Radiative forcing

Radio direction finder

Radio navigation

Radioactive contamination

Radioactive waste

Radiocarbon dating

Radiometric dating

Rate of evolution

Recent African origin of modern humans

Reciprocal altruism

Reciprocity (evolution)

Reclaimed water

Recreational fishing

Red Queen hypothesis

Refuge (ecology)

Regenerative agriculture

Relative dating

Relative direction

Relative humidity

Relative nonlinearity

Relative species abundance

Remediation of contaminated sites with cement

Remineralisation

Remote sensing (geology)

Renewable resource

Reproductive isolation

Reproductive success

Research station

Resource depletion

Resource recovery

Restoration ecology

Reuse of excreta

Rewilding (conservation biology)

Richter magnitude scale

Ridge (meteorology)

River ecosystem

Robustness (evolution)

Rock microstructure

Rock-climbing equipment

Rotating biological contactor

Routine flaring

Runaway greenhouse effect

Russian famine of 1601–1603

Russian famine of 1921–22

Saltation (biology)

Sanitary sewer overflow

Saprotrophic nutrition

Satellite navigation

Sea salt aerosol

Sea surface temperature

Seafloor spreading

Second voyage of HMS Beagle

Second voyage of James Cook

Secondary succession

Sediment transport

Sedimentary basin

Sedimentary rock

Sedimentation (water treatment)

Selection coefficient

Selective breeding

Selective sweep

Self-pollination

Semi-arid climate

Septic drain field

Sequence homology

Settlement of the Americas

Sewage sludge treatment

Sewage treatment

Sexual conflict

Sexual selection

Shear strength (soil)

Shelterwood cutting

Shoaling and schooling

Signalling theory

Significant wave height

Silicate minerals

Smoking (cooking)

Snorkel (swimming)

Soil acidification

Soil conditioner

Soil conservation

Soil contamination

Soil liquefaction

Soil organic matter

Soil retrogression and degradation

Soil vapor extraction

Soil water (retention)

Solar irradiance

Solar radiation management

Source–sink dynamics

South China Sea

South Magnetic Pole

Southern Hemisphere

Soviet famine of 1932–33

Soviet famine of 1946–47

Spandrel (biology)

Spatial analysis

Spatial ecology

Species distribution

Species distribution modelling

Species diversity

Species evenness

Species richness

Species sorting

Species–area relationship

Spectral imaging

Sperm competition

Spit (landform)

Spring (hydrology)

Spring (season)

Sprite (lightning)

St. Elmo's fire

Stabilizing selection

Standard penetration test

Stratification (vegetation)

Stratification (water)

Stratigraphy (archaeology)

Stratospheric aerosol injection

Stratospheric sulfur aerosols

Streak (mineralogy)

Structural geology

Structuralism (biology)

Structure of the Earth

Structures built by animals

Subglacial lake

Submarine canyon

Submarine pipeline

Submarine volcano

Subsidence (atmosphere)

Subsistence agriculture

Substitution model

Subterranea (geography)

Subterranean fauna

Subterranean river

Sugar substitute

Sun compass in animals

Supercontinent cycle

Surface weather analysis

Surface weather observation

Survey (archaeology)

Survival skills

Sustainable agriculture

Swarm behaviour

Sympatric speciation

Synapomorphy and apomorphy

Synoptic scale meteorology

Systems ecology

Taxonomy (biology)

Tectonic uplift

Temperate climate

Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands

Temperature gradient

Terminator (solar)

Terraforming of Mars

Terrain cartography

Terrestrial biological carbon cycle

Terrestrial locomotion

Terrestrial Time

Territory (animal)

Theobroma cacao

Theoretical ecology

Theory of tides

Thermal comfort

Thermohaline circulation

Third voyage of James Cook

Threshing machine

Tinbergen's four questions

Tipping points in the climate system

Tool use by animals

Topographic map

Total dissolved solids

Total fertility rate

Transform fault

Tree of life (biology)

Triangulation (surveying)

Trickling filter

Tripod (surveying)

Trolling (fishing)

Trophic cascade

Tropic of Cancer

Tropic of Capricorn

Tropical climate

Tropical cyclone

Tropical rainforest

Trough (meteorology)

True range multilateration

Types of volcanic eruptions

Ultraviolet index

Unconventional oil

Underground mining (hard rock)

Underground mining (soft rock)

Undersea mountain range

Undertow (water waves)

Underwater breathing apparatus

Underwater diving

Unicellular organism

Unified neutral theory of biodiversity

Uniformitarianism

Unleavened bread

Upper-atmospheric lightning

Vegetarian cuisine

VHF omnidirectional range

Viral evolution

Viral phylodynamics

Volcanic Explosivity Index

Volcanic winter

Voyages of Christopher Columbus

Walker circulation

Waste collection

Waste container

Waste hierarchy

Waste management

Waste minimisation

Waste stabilization pond

Waste-to-energy

Wastewater quality indicators

Wastewater treatment

Water chlorination

Water conservation

Water distribution system

Water extraction

Water pollution

Water purification

Water resource management

Water resources

Water softening

Water supply network

Water treatment

Weather balloon

Weather forecasting

Weather modification

Weather station

Western Hemisphere

Wet-bulb globe temperature

Wetland methane emissions

Whiteout (weather)

Wildfire suppression

Wildland–urban interface

Wildlife conservation

Wildlife corridor

Wildlife management

Wind generated current

Wind wave model

Wingsuit flying

Wood preservation

Wood-decay fungus

World energy resources

World population

Yellowstone National Park

Yosemite National Park

Zonal and meridional flow

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