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  1. aids: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, caused by HIV 1 and HIV 2
  2. alluvial plains: land that is rich farmland, composed of silt, sand, or gravel deposited by running water
  3. aquifer: an underground layer of rock that stores water
  4. Archipelago: a set of closely grouped islands
  5. assimilation: when a culture gradually gives up on its own culture and adopts another culture
  6. atmosphere: the layers of grass immediately surounding the earth
  7. atoll: a rigidlike coral island or string of small islands surrounding a lagoon
  8. bikini atoll: the site of the u.s. nuclear bomb tests
  9. biological weapon: a bacterium or virus that can be used to harm r kill people, animals, or plants
  10. blizzard: a heavy snowstorm with winds of more than 35 miles per hour and reduced visibility of less than one-quartermile
  11. brahmaputra: a river that conectes with the ganges river
  12. calypso: a style of music that began in trindad and combines musical elements from africa, spain, and the carribean
  13. canopy: the area encompasing the tops of trees in a rain forrest, about 150 feet above ground
  14. capoeira: a martial art and dance that developed in Brazil
  15. carnival: the most colorful feast day in brazlil
  16. cerrado: a savvana that had flat terrain and mderate rainfall, which makes it suitable for farming
  17. cholera: a deseased caused by bad water
  18. climate: the typical weather conditions at a particular location observed over time
  19. coalition: an allience
  20. commodity: an agriculture or minning product that can be sold
  21. confucianism: it stressed the importance of edgucation in an ordered society in which one respects ones elders and obeys the government
  22. crust: a thin layer of rock making up the earth's surface
  23. cultural hearth: the heartland or place of origen of a major culture
  24. cyclone: a violent storm with vierce winds and heavy rains
  25. diversify: to increase the number of products in a country's economy
  26. dynasties: a series of rulers from the same family
  27. economic tiger: a country with rapid econmic growth due to cheap labor, high technology, and aggresive exports
  28. equator: the imaginary line that encircles the earth
  29. equinox: the two days a year that mark the beggining of spring and autum
  30. estuary: a broadend seaward end of a river, where the river's current meets the ocean tides
  31. ganges: a river in south asia; an important water reascource flowing more than 1,500 miles from its source
  32. Ghana: a country that swore in a new presedent in 2001
  33. global networking: the worldwide inter connecting group
  34. great barrier reef: a 1250 - mile chain of more than 2500 reefs and islands formed along australia's northeast coast
  35. hemisphere: each half of the globe
  36. high islands: pacific islands formed by volcanoes
  37. himalaya mountains: a mountain range in south asia that includes mount everest
  38. hinduism: the dominant religion in india
  39. hiv: Human Immunodefiency Virus;the disease that causes aids
  40. hurricane: a storm that forms over warm, tropical ocean water
  41. hydrosphere: the water comprising the earth's surface
  42. infrastructure: the basic support system needed to keep an economy going
  43. Kurds: an ethnic group in southwest asia that has occupied kurdistan, located in turkey, iraq, and iran
  44. latitude lines: the imaginary lines that run east and west across the earth
  45. lithosphere: the solid rock portion of the earth's surface
  46. longitude lines: the imaginary lines that run north and south along the earth
  47. low island: pacific islands made of coral reefs
  48. malaria: a desease carried by msquitos
  49. mantle: a rock layer about 1800 miles thick that is between the earths crust and earths core
  50. Mao Zedong: the leader of the communist in china who defeated the nationalist in 1949
  51. monsoons: a seasonal wind,especially in south asia
  52. mosque: an islamic place of worship , where muslims pray facing toward the holy city of Mecca
  53. Muhammad: the founder and a prophet of islam, who lived part of his lifein the city of Mecca
  54. oasis: a place where water from an equater has reached the surface
  55. oceana: the group of islands in the pacific including melanasia, micronesia, and polynesia
  56. one commodity country: a country thst relies on one principle export for much of its earnings
  57. OPEC: the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, a group established in 1960 by some oil- producing nations to coordinate policies on selling petroleum products
  58. outback: the dry, unpopulated inland region of australia
  59. outrigger canoe: a small ship used in lagoons of islands where pacific islanders settled
  60. pacific rim: an economic and social region including the country's surrounding the pacific ocean
  61. Palistine Liberation Organization: a grouped formed in the 1960's to regain the Arab land in Isreal for Palestinian Arabs
  62. panama canal: a ship canal cut through panama connecting the carribean sea with the pacific ocean
  63. precipitation: falling water droplets in the form of rain, sleet, snow, or hail
  64. prime meridian: the imaginary line at zero meridean used to measure longitude east to west
  65. reggae: music developed in jamaca in 1960's often dealling with social and cultural problems
  66. sahara: the largest desert in the world
  67. samba: Brazillian dance with african influences
  68. seoul: the largest city in south korea
  69. serengeti: an area of east africa, containing some of the best grasslands in the world
  70. Shi'ite: one of two main branches of islam
  71. shoguns: the general of the emperors army with the power of a military dictator
  72. smart growth: the efficient use and conservation of land and other rescources
  73. solstice: the two days that mark the beggining of summer and winter
  74. spheres of influence: a method o dividing forieghn control in china
  75. storm surge: high water level brought by a cyclone that swamps low lying areas
  76. sustainable community multiculturalism: a community where resedents can live and work in harmony with the enviroment
  77. taliban: a strickt Muslim group in Afghanistan that has imposed rigid rules on society
  78. taoism: a philosophy based on the book tao te ching and the teachings of lao-tzu
  79. terrorism: the use of force or violence against individuals to intimadating people into doing things
  80. theocratic: a form of government in which religous leaders control the government
  81. three kingdoms: the kingdoms of korea koguryo, paekche, and silla
  82. tornado: a powerful funnel-shaped column of spiraling air
  83. treaty of trdesillas: a treaty beetween spain and portugal in 1494 that gave portugul control over land that's present day Brazil
  84. tuberculosis: Infectious disease caused by the tubercle bacillus, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Most commonly affects the respiratory system and causes inflammation and calcification of the system.
  85. typhoon: a tropical storm, like a hurricane, that occurs in the western pacific
  86. Uganda: a country that had reduced the amount of people with aids
  87. united provinces of central america: the name of central america after the region declard independence from mexico in1823
  88. urban sprawl: poorly planned development that spreads a city's population over a wider and wider geographic area
  89. voyaging canoe: a large ship developed by pacific islanders to sail the ocean
  90. Western Wall: for jews, the holiest side in Jeruselum
  91. Zionism: a movement that began in the 19th century to create and support a Jewish homeland in Palestine