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Chapter 10 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Austral | South |
Southern Ocean | The ocean that surrounds Antarctica |
Subtropical Convergence | A narrow marine transition zone at approximate latitude 40 s |
West Wind Drift | The clockwise movement of water as a current that circles around Antarctica in the southern ocean. |
Bio Geography | The study of plant life and animal life in spatial perspective. |
Wallace's line | The zoogeographical boundary proposed by Alfred Russel Wallace that separates the marsupial fauna of Australia and New Guinea from the non- marsupial fauna of Indonesia. |
Aboriginal Population | Native or aboriginal peoples; often used to designate the inhabitants of areas that were conquered and subsequently colonized by the imperial powers of Europe. |
Federation | A country with a government that divides its power equally to its political divisions. |
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 the country. |
Primary Sector | Activities engaged in the direct extraction of natural resources from the environment such as mining, fishing, lumbering, and especially agriculture. |
Environmental Deration | The accumulated human abuse of a region's natural landscape that, among other things, can involve pollution and threats to the environment. |
El Nino | A periodic, abnormal warming of the sea surface in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. |
Desalination | The process of removing dissolved salts from water. |
Aboriginal Land Issue | The legal campaign in which Australia's indigenous people have claimed title to traditional land in several parts of that country. |
APEC | The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. Promote free trade throughout the Asia Pacific region. |
Peripheral Development | Spatial pattern in which a country's or region's development and population is most heavily concentrated along the outer edges rather than its interior. |