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WH 05242010
Vocabulary Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Atoll | a ring-like coral island or string of islands surrounding a lagoon. |
| Archipelagoes | a set of closely grouped islands. |
| Land Right Act 1976 | a special law passed for Aboriginal rights in Austrialia giving Aboriginal people right to claim land in the northern teritory. |
| Salt flat deserts | flat land made of chemical salts that remain after winds evaporate the moisture in the soil. |
| Kurds | an ethnic group in SW Asia that has occupied Kurdistan, located in Turkey, Iraq and Iran for over 1,000 years. |
| Zionism | a movement that began in the 19th century to create and support a Jewish homeland in Palestine. |
| OPEC | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries-a group established in 1960 by some oil-producing nations to coordinate policies on setting petroleum products. |
| Human Resources | the skills and talents of employed people. |
| Strategic commodity | a resource so important that nations will go to war to ensure its steady supply. |
| Stateless Nation | a nation that does not have a territory to occupy. |
| Estuary | a broaden seaward endof a river, where the river's currents meet the ocean's tides. |
| Constitutional Monarchy | a government in which the ruler's powers are limited by a constitution and the laws of a nation. |
| Oceania | the group of islands in the Pacific, including Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. |
| Ring of Fire | the chain of volcanoes that lines the Pacific Rim |
| Storm Surge | high water level brought by a cyclone that swamps low-lying areas. |
| Push/pull Factors | a factor that either pushes people from an area or pulls them to want to move to a particular area. |
| Canal | man-made waterway connecting two larger bodies of water |
| Delta | fan-like landform made of deposited sediment, left by a river that slows as it enters the ocean. |
| Island | a body of land surrounded by water. |
| Isthmus | a narrow strip of land, bordered on both sides by water, connecting two larger bodies of land. |
| Mountain | natural elevation of the earth's surface with steep sides and greater height that a hill |
| Peninsula | a point of land extending into an ocean or lake. |
| Valley | low land between hills or mountains. |
| Equator | the imaginary line that encircles the globe, dividing the earth into northern and southern halves. |
| Prime Meridian | the imaginary line at zero meridian used to measure longitude east to west and dividing the earth's east and west halves. |
| Nation | a group of people with a common culture living in a territory and having a strong sense of unity. |
| State | a political term describing an independent unit that occupies a specific territory and has full control of its internal and external affairs. |
| Democracy | type of government in which citizens hold political power either directly or through elected representatives. |
| Dictatorship | type of government in which an individual or a group holds complete political power. |
| Christianity | the chrtistian religion founded on the lift and teaching of Jesus Christ. |
| Islam | the religious faith of Muslims, based on the words and religious system founded by the prophet Muhammad and taught by the Koran. |
| Polytheistic | believe in more that one god. |
| Monotheistic | believe in one god. |
| Buddism | a religion that originated in India about 500 BC and spread to China, where it grew into a major religion by 400 AD. |
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