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Ch. 21 Sect. 1 Vocab
Southeast Asia Geography & History
Term | Definition |
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land bridge | a strip of land connecting two landmasses |
landlocked | surrounded by land on all sides, with no direct access to a seacoast |
typhoon | a dangerous tropical storm with heavy rains and high winds, known as a hurricane in the Western Hemisphere |
tsunami | a large, powerful ocean wave |
subsistence fishing | fishing for enough food to live on, not for profit |
ecologist | a scientist who studies the relationships between living things and their environment |
bauxite | the raw material used to make aluminum |
biodiversity | the variety of species in an ecosystem |
dynamic | continuously changing |
dormant | inactive, referring to a volcano |
zoologist | a scientist who studies animals |
wallaby | a marsupial animal that is smaller than a kagaroo |