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Chapter 34 Vocabulary

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aborigine   an original inhabitant; one of original inhabitants of Austrailia  
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lagoon   a shallow body of water seperated from the sea by coral reefs or sandbars  
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cyclone   a violent, rotating windstorm  
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outback   remote, sparsley settled, arid, rural country, especially the central and western plains and plateaus  
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artesian well   a well that is drilled deep enough to tap a layer of porous material filled with ground water  
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atoll   a ring- shaped coral island surrounding a lagoon  
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geyser   a natural hot spring that shoots a column of water and stream into the air  
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trust territory   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 extension of glacial ice over the sea, ofter protruding hundreds of miles  
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pack ice   floating sea ice formed by a mix of icebergs iwth other ice formed in superchilled ocean waters  
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convergence zone   an area of service storms where the frigid waters circulating around antarctica meet the warmer waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans  
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krill   small, shrimplike creatures; food for whales and fish  
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