transect
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About an hour west of Twin Lake the next day, Gilbert sat with Sam Myers, who runs a fourth-generation wheat farm that the B2H line would transect.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2025
Microplastics were found in higher abundances nearer land mass at the southern end of the transect and northwards towards the ice edge, recording 0.015 microplastics m-3 during both transect legs.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2023
Several trails, including the ADA-accessible Centennial Fields Park Trail, transect the environment.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
It’s a dangerous journey for a small songbird only weighing about 30 grams, and if a hurricane happens to transect that migration, some of those birds may never make it.
From National Geographic ● Jul. 28, 2023
The two birds from 12 miles north of Kalabakan were taken in a net stretched across a surveyor's transect.
From Birds from North Borneo University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, Volume 17, No. 8, pp. 377-433, October 27, 1966 by Thompson, Max C.
Vocabulary lists containing transect
Unit 1: Ecological Systems
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