Southeast Asia and the Pacific World
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 indigenous | native, original to a certain area |
| how people from China and India moved into SE Asia | on railroads and roads built by Europeans to carry crops to port cities for exports |
| the problem caused by immigrants into SE Asia | immigrants ignored indigenous cultures |
| heterogeneous | lack of similarity; mixture |
| two countries whose heterogeneity is a challenge | Indonesia (250 languages) and Philippines (70 languages) |
| barbarian | someone without manners or civilized customs |
| what China considers foreigners to be | barbarians |
| paddies | wet land on which Southeast Asia grows rice |
| Europeans cleared forests in SE Asia to create these | rice paddies and plantations for coffee, tea, tobacco and rubber |
| doi moi | a program of economic change that Vietnam began in 1986 |
| how doi moi has affected Vietnam's relationship with other countries | the US, a former enemy, signed a trade agreement with Vietnam |
| this country is the world's second largest exporter of rice because of doi moi | Vietnam |
| aborigine | the first Australians; were hunters and gatherers |
| lagoon | shallow body of water with an outlet to the ocean |
| the largest coral reef in the world | the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia |
| cyclone | hurricane |
| cyclones have leveled Darwin, the capital of | Australia's Northern Territory |
| outback | Australian wilderness |
| the first persons to live in Australia's outback | the Aborigines |
| artesian well | deep well drilled into groundwater |
| how the Australian cattle industry waters their cattle | artesian wells |
| geyser | hots springs that shoot jets of steam and heated water into the air |
| what invites the tourist industry into New Zealand | volcanoes and geysers |
| Trust Territory | land supervised by a nation that does not own it |
| 2 trust territories overseen by the United States | Guam and American Samoa |
| crevasse | a dangerous large crack in glacial ice |
| what provides the most convenient route into the interior of Antarctica | glaciers (beware the crevasse!) |
| ice shelf | permanent extensions of ice extending from slowly moving glaciers |
| large ice shelves cover these two seas | Ross and Weddell |
| pack ice | what fringes most of the Antarctic continent; can extend more than 1,000 miles from land's edge |
| convergence zone | place where cold waters around Antarctica meet warmer waters of Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans |
| what causes severe storms along Antarctica's coastline | the convergence zone |
| krill | small shrimplike creatures that are food for whales and fish |
| where krill live | in the convergence zone |
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