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| geographic cirque A deep steep-walled half-bowl-like recess or hollow, variously described as horseshoe- or crescent-shaped or semi-circular in plan, situated high on the side of a mountain and commonly at the head of a glacial valley and produced by the erosive activity of a mountain glacier. It often contains a small round lake, and it may or may not be occupied by ice or snow | 高山冰积洼地 (深陡峭壁形或半钵状深凹或山谷，在图示中表示为蹄形或新月形或半环形。位于较高的山边，通常在一个冰川头部，由冰川的侵蚀活动形成。它通常包含一个小圆湖，其中有或没有冰雪。) |
| geographic information system An organized collection of computer hardware, software, geographic data, and personnel designed to efficiently capture, store, update, manipulate, analyze, and display all forms of geographically referenced information that can be drawn from different sources, both statistical and mapped | 地理信息系统 (一个计算机硬件，软件，地理数据和人员的组合，以有效的捕获，存储，更新，处理，分析和显示一切形式的，从不同来源得到的地理参照信息，可以是统计数据和地图。) |
| geographical distribution of population The number of inhabitants in or spread across designated subdivisions of an area, region, city or country | 人口地理分布 (在指定区域，如同一地区，城市，或国家里的居民数。) |
| geographical projection A representation of the globe constructed on a plane with lines representative of and corresponding to the meridians and parallels of the curved surface of the earth | 地理投影 (在一个平面内建立起的地球构造，用线条代表经纬，用平行的线条表达地球的曲面。) |
