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Chapter 34 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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aborigine | an original inhabitant; one of original inhabitants of Austrailia |
lagoon | a shallow body of water seperated from the sea by coral reefs or sandbars |
cyclone | a violent, rotating windstorm |
outback | remote, sparsley settled, arid, rural country, especially the central and western plains and plateaus |
artesian well | a well that is drilled deep enough to tap a layer of porous material filled with ground water |
atoll | a ring- shaped coral island surrounding a lagoon |
geyser | a natural hot spring that shoots a column of water and stream into the air |
trust territory | 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 extension of glacial ice over the sea, ofter protruding hundreds of miles |
pack ice | floating sea ice formed by a mix of icebergs iwth other ice formed in superchilled ocean waters |
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 |
krill | small, shrimplike creatures; food for whales and fish |