grapho-, graph-, -graph, -graphy, -grapher, -graphia

An area based primarily on hydrologic boundaries adjusted as needed using a specified set of criteria to accommodate the inventory and analysis of natural resources.

A geographic unit can vary in scale depending on the criteria used, the level of inventory and analysis needed, and the problems perceived. In all cases, geographic units incorporate both groundwater and surface water.

Characterized by the scientific study of the surface of the earth including the topographical features of a region, or regions, of the earth.

1. The study of the natural features of the earth's surface, comprising topography, climate, soil, vegetation, etc. and man's responses to them.
2. The physical features of a region, area, or place; usually, the surface features.
3. The science that deals with the description of land, sea, and air and the distribution of plant and animal life, including humans.
4. The scientific study of the earth, including its composition, structure, physical properties, and history.

Geology is commonly divided into subdisciplines concerned with the chemical makeup of the earth, including:

• The study of minerals (mineralogy) and rocks (petrology).
• The structure of the earth (structural geology) and volcanic phenomena (volcanology).
• Landforms and the processes that produce them (geomorphology and glaciology).
• The geologic history, including the study of fossils (paleontology).
• The development of sedimentary strata (stratigraphy).
• The evolution of planetary bodies and their satellites (astrogeology).
• Economic geology and its various branches; such as, mining geology and petroleum geology.
• Also, some major fields closely allied to geology are geodesy, geophysics, and geochemistry.

The study of energy development, transportation, markets, or the use of patterns from a geographical perspective.

A lithologically (rocky) homogeneous body of strata characterized by certain observable physical features, or by the dominance of a certain rock type or combination of rock types.

Rock-stratigraphic units include groups, formations, members, and beds.

The study of the features of the floors and margins of the oceans; marine geology; submarine geology: Geological oceanography encompasses descriptions of topography, composition of bottom matter, mutual actio of sediments and rocks with air and sea water, the results of motion in the mantle on the sea floor, and activity of wave energy in the submarine crust of the earth.

An instrument that can be suspended from the side of a moving ship to measure and to calculate the direction and speed of ocean currents while the ship is under way by measuring the voltage produced by the earth's magnetic field in the moving conductive seawater.

An instrument or device for recording the tongue's movements during speech.

1. Someone who compiles glosses or glossaries.
2. A writer of a glossary; a commentator.

1. The writing of glosses or commentaries; the compiling of glossaries.
2. A written description of the tongue. A description or grouping of languages.
3. An instrument for recording the movements of the tongue when speaking.

1. A reference to the writing of glossaries, glosses, or comments for illustrating an author.
2. Descriptive of the compilation of glosses or glossaries.

An instrument for recording the activity of the vocal cords during phonation and respiration.

It consists of a pair of electrodes, one for application to either side of the neck adjacent to the larynx, a generator, amplifier, and oscilloscope.

The recording, using an electrolaryngograph, of the activity of the vocal cords from potentials arising in the laryngeal muscles during phonation and respiration.

A plate made by glyphography, or an impression taken from such a plate.