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