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Unit 10 Vocab HS
Unit 10 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Archipelago | Set of closely grouped islands. |
| Oceania | Group of islands in the pacific, including Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. |
| High Island | Pacific islands created by volcanoes. |
| Low Island | Pacific islands made of coral reefs. |
| Great Barrier Reef | 1250- mile chain of more than 2500 reefs and islands along Australia's northeast coast, containing some 400 species of coral. |
| Outback | Dry unpopulated inland region of Australia. |
| Voyaging Canoe | A large ship developed by Pacific Islanders to sail the ocean. |
| Outrigger Canoe | Small ship used in the lagoons of islands where Pacific Islanders settled. |
| Atoll | Ringlike coral island surrounding a lagoon. |
| Bikini Atoll | The isolated reef, located in the Marshall Islands of the Central Pacific, that was the site of the U.S. nuclear bomb tests, contaminating the atoll. |
| Mandala | State organized as a ring of power. |
| Khmer Empire | Powerful empire that lasted roughly from the 9th to the 15th centuries in what is now Cambodia. |
| Indochina | A French colony comprised of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam; it won independence from France in 1954. |
| Vietnam War | Military conflict resulting from American involvement in South Vietnam to prevent it's takeover by Communist North Vietnam. (1954-1975) |
| ASEAN | Association of Southeast Asian Nations. |
| Micronesia | One of three regions in Oceania, meaning "tiny islands." |
| Melanesia | A region in Oceania meaning "Black islands." |
| Polynesia | One of three regions in Oceania meaning "many islands." |
| Subsistence Activity | Activity in which a family produces only the food, clothing, and shelter they need themselves. |
| Copra | Dried meat of coconuts. |
| Taro | Tropical Asian plant. |
| Penal Colony | Place to send prisoners. |
| Aboriginal People | People who migrated to Australia from Asia. |
| Maori | First settlers of New Zealand, who had migrated from Polynesia more than 1000 years 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 people, for the New Zealanders of European descent. |
| Assimilation | Process in which a minority group gradually gives up its own culture and adopts the culture of a majority group. |
| Stolen Generation | In Australia, what Aboriginal people today call the 100,000 mixed-race children who were taken by the government and given to white families to promote assimilation. |
| Land Rights Act of 1976 | Special law passed for Aboriginal rights in Australia giving Aboriginal people the right to claim land in the Northern Territory. |
| Mabo Case | In Australia, the law case that upheld Aboriginal Eddie Mabo's land claim by which the court recognized that Aboriginal people had owned land before the British arrived. |
| Pastoral Leases | In Australia, a huge chunk of land still owned by the government; ranchers take out leases, renting the land from the government. |
| Wik Case | In Australia, the court ruled in this case that Aboriginal people could claim land held under a pastoral lease. |
| Industrialization | Growth of industry in a country or society. |
| Push-Pull Factors | Positive and negative things about a certain region. |
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