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Unit 10 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Archipelago | a large group or chain of islands |
| Oceania | the islands of the central and S Pacific, including Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and traditionally Australasia. 23,400,000; about 3,450,000 sq. mi. |
| High Islands | pacific islands created by volcanoes |
| Low Island | pacific islands created by coral reefs |
| Great Barrier Reef | a coral reef parallel to the coast of Queensland, in NE Australia. 1250 miles |
| Outback | the back country or remote settlements; the bush |
| Voyaging Canoe | a large ship developed by pacific islanders to sail the ocean |
| Outrigger Canoe | a small ship used in the lagoons of islands where pacific islanders settled |
| Atoll | a ring-shaped coral reef or a string of closely spaced small coral islands, enclosing or nearly enclosing a shallow lagoon. |
| Bikini Atoll | the isolated reef located in the marshall islands of the central pacific that was the site of us nuclear bomb test consequently contaminating the atoll with high levels of radiation |
| Mandala | a state organized as a ring of power around a central court which often changed in size over time and which was used instead of borders in early s.e asian countries |
| Khmer Empire | a powrful empire that lasted roughly from the 9th century to the 15th century in what is now cambodia |
| Indochina | a french colonycomprised of cambodia laos and vietnam it won its independence from france in 1954 |
| Vietnam War | a conflict, starting in 1954 and ending in 1975, between South Vietnam (later aided by the U.S., South Korea, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand, and New Zealand) and the Vietcong and North Vietnam. |
| ASEAN | Association of Southeast Asian Nations. |
| Micronesia | one of the three principal divisions of Oceania, comprising the small Pacific islands N of the equator and E of the Philippines, whose main groups are the Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands, and the Marshall Islands. |
| Melanesia | one of the three principal divisions of Oceania, comprising the island groups in the S Pacific NE of Australia. |
| Polynesia | a subregion of Oceania, made up of over 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean. |
| Subsistance Activities | an activity in which a family produces only enough goods to they themselves need |
| Copra | is the dried meat, or kernel, of the coconut |
| Taro | is a common name for the corms and tubers of several plants in the family Araceae |
| Penal Colony | a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general populace by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory |
| Aboriginal People | people who migrated to australia from asia at least 40000 yrs ago, he original settlers of the land |
| Maori | the first settlers of New Zealand who had migrated from polynesia more than 1000 yrs ago |
| Treaty of Waitangi | the treaty signed by the british and maori in 1840 giving britain control over new zealand |
| Pakeha | a maori term for white peoples, for the new zealanders of european descent |
| Assimilation | a process whereby a minority group gradually gives up its own cultrue and adopts the culture of a majority group |
| Stolen Generation | in australia, what aboriginal people today call the 100,000 mixed-raced children who were taken by the government and given to whote families to promote assimilation |
| Land Rights Act of 1976 | a special law passed for aboriginal rights in australia giving aboriginal people the right to claim land in the northern territory |
| Mabo Case | the law case that upheld aborigianl eddie mabo's land claim by which the court recognized that aboriginal people ahd owned before the british arrived |
| Pastoral Leases | a huge chunk of land still owned by the government |
| Wik Case | the court rule in the case that aboriginal people could claim land held under a pastoral lease |
| Industrialization | is the process of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial one |
| Push-Pull Factors | factors that draws people to a new location or causes people to leave their home |
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