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Chap. 11 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Austral | South |
Southern Ocean | The ocean that surrounds Antarctica |
Subtropical Convergence | A narrow transition zone, girding the globe at the approximately latitude 40S |
West Wind Drift | The clockwise movement of water as a current that circles around Antarctica in the Southern Ocean |
Biogeography | The study of flora and fauna in spatial perspective |
Wallace’s Line | The zoogeograhical boundary proposed by Alfred Russel Wallace that separates the marsupial fauna of Australia and New Guinea |
Aboriginal population | Native peoples; often used to designate the inhabitants of areas that conquered and subsequently colonized the the imperial powers of Europe |
Federation | A country adhering to political framework wherein a central government represents the various sub national entities within a nation-state |
Unitary state | A nation-state that has a centralized government and administration that exercises power equally over all parts of the state |
Outback | The name given by Australians to the vast, peripheral, sparsely settled interior of their country |
Primary sector | Activities engaged in the direct extraction of natural resources from the environment such as mining, fishing, lumbering, and especially agriculture |
Environmental degradation | The accumulated human abuse of a region’s natural landscape |
El Niño | A periodic, abnormal warming of sea surface in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean |
Desalination | The process of removing dissolved salts from water, thereby producing fresh water seawater or brackish water |
Aboriginal land issue | The legal campaign in which Australia’s indigenous peoples have claimed title to traditional land in several parts of that country |
APEC | The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum |
Peripheral development | Spatial pattern in which a country’s or region’s development is most heavily concentrated along its outer edges rather than its interior |
Disaster management | Sub field of urban and regional planning that consists of four phases: hazard mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery |