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| aborigine | an original inhabitant one of the original inhabitants of australia
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| lagoon | a shallow body of water separated from the sea by coral reefs or sandbars
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| cyclone | a veiolent rotating windstorm
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| outback | remote sparsley settled arid rural country especially the central and western plains and plateaus of australia
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| artesian well | a well that is drilled deel enoug to tap a layer of porous material filled with ground watter
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| geyser | a natural ot sprin that shoots a column of water steam in the air
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| trust teritorry | a dependent colony or territory supervised by another country by commission of the united nations
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| crevasse | a deep crack in glacial ice
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| ice shelf | a massive extenison of glacial ice over the sea often protruding hundreds of miles
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| pack ice | floating sea ice formed in superchilled ocean waters
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| converence zone | an area of severe storms where the frigid water circulating around antarctica meeet the wamer water of the atlantick pacific and ineain oceans
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| krill | small shrimp like creatures food for whales and fish
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| atoll | a ring of shaped coral island surrounding a lagoon
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| sultanate | a state ruled by a sultan
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| nonaligend nation | a person sence of what makes them a nation
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| subcontinent | a lsarge land masss forming distinct part of continent
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| alluvialplain | a broad expanse of land along river banks consisting of rich fertile soil left by floods
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| monsoon | a seasonal shift in the prevaling winds that influene larege climiet regions
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| NATIONALISM | pride in ones nation the desire of an cultrual froup to rule themselves as a separate nation
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| nonviolent resistance | the policy of opposin an enemy or oppressor by any meas other than violence
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| boycott | to refuse to purchase or se a product or servib as an expressoion of disapproval
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| partation | a ddivision into separate parts
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| reincaration | the elief that the soul of a human being or animal goes through a series of births deaths and rebirths
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| caste system | a social hierarchy in wich a person possessses a disinct ranck in socitey that is determined by birth
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| charpoy | a wooden bed frame with knotted string in place of a mattress
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| sari | a brightly colored cloth warn by many indian women
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| purdah | the pratice among hindu and muslim wemon of covering the face with a veil when out side the home
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| joint family system | in india the custom of housing all member of an extened family together
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| cottage industry | a small sccale manufaturing operation use littile technology often located in or near peoples homes
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| hydroelectric power | electriicity that is generated by moving water
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| irrigate | the waterinm o farmland with water drawon form reserviors or rivers
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| embakment dam | a wall of soil an rock to hold back water
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| buffer state | a country that separates two hostile countries
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| malnutrition | diseade caused by lack of food or an unbalanced diet
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| deforestation | the process of stripin gthe land of its trees
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