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Vocab List #8
Australia
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Outback | Australia's dry interior |
| natural resources | things that come from Earth or nature that are useful to humans |
| Aborigines | native people of Australia |
| nomadic | moving from place to place in search of food |
| Captain James Cook | Captain of Great Britain who in 1770 charted the eastern Australian coast in his ship Endeavor. He claimed the east coast of Australia for King George of Great Britain. |
| indigenous | native to a region |
| Stolen Generations | Australian government programs from 1910 into the 1970s that removed Aboriginal children from their families and sent them to white families and church-run institutions for cultural reprogramming. |
| Specialization | when a country focuses on producing the goods and services they can make best and trading for what they are unable to produce. |
| Entrepreneurship | the ability to organize, manage, and take on the risks of a business or enterprise. |
| Arable | suitable for farming |
| Drought | long period of extremely dry weather |
| Climate | the average annual weather conditions in a given location |
| Literacy Rate | the percentage of a population's’ adults that can read and write |
| Standard of living | level of comfort enjoyed by a person or society |
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McClure 6 SS