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Global Regions Quest

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rain shadow   rises and cools ; eastern side is wet side  
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where do people live   on the east coast  
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aborigines   nomads: hunters/ gatherers first people in australia  
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maoris   seafarers about 800 yers ago they made large canoes they are farmers  
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importance of oceania   WWII: island hoping today: tourism  
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european settlers and their effects   raised sheep gold rush pushed aborigines off  
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difference between australia and new zealand   australia had oil, new zealand didn't aborigines were home to australia, maoris were home to new zealand  
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difference between maoris and new zealand   aborigines were hunters/gatherers maoris were farmers  
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melanesia   "black islands" isolated  
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micronesia   "tiny islands" isolated  
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polynesia   many hawaiin islands were an example of this isolated  
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austalia's commerce   raised sheep  
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two islands   micronesia  
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geothermal energy   energy from heat sources from the earth volcanoes, geysers, etc  
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suffrage   the right to vote new zealand was the first country to have the right to vote  
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high islands   were volcanic  
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penal colony   australia was this ; where prisoners were sent  
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nuclear free zone   didn't allow nuclear weapons in their waters  
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climates   dictated where people chose to live in australia  
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land forms   the mountain range/the great divide: formed the outback  
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australia's geography and settlement patterns   they lived on the east coast because they had access to water/farming ; they had people who lived in the grasslands to raise sheep ; nobody lived in the outback because there was no water  
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