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| Known as the "black islands" |
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| Are often the result of volcanic eruptions, many of them comprise island chains |
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| Made of coral, most take the shape of an irregular ring surrounding a lagoon, called an atoll. Lack resources to support dense populations |
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| When you have an irregular ring shaped island surrounding a lagoon |
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| Means that molten magma is close to earths crust, often forms high islands |
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| an area of shallow water separated from the sea by low sandy dunes |
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| Species of plants and animals which are found exclusively in a particular area |
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| Species which are not native to an area, and yet are introduced to that area |
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| organisms that spread into regions outside of their native range |
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| mammals that have a pouch, usually native to Australia. Examples are kangaroo, wombats, and bandicoots |
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| The most primitive order of mammals, characterized by certain birdlike and reptillian features. One example is the Duck Billed Platypus |
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| Official language of Papua New Guinea |
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| First people to settle New Guinea. Very harful to the environment |
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| any bank located in a seperate jurisdiction other than the one you're in |
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| Another word for the ranches used in Oceania, range from a few hundred to thousands of acres |
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| Another word for the aborigines that are the primary cattle ranchers |
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| Most widely known and accepted Maori name for New Zealand |
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| The time period where there was an abduction of 100,000 children |
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| Means that Aborigines have the right to claim title to public land leased to farmers and ranchers |
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| Says that Aborigines have the right to claim land leased to mining companies once the mining lease expires |
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| National park in Australia, which the aborigines hold the title for |
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| Another word for the "outback" |
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| Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, formed in order to enhance economic growth and prosperity and to strengthen the Asia Pacific community |
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| practice of many traditional pre-industrial tribal societies, where they focus on obtaining the material wealth being shipped in |
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| Means able to speak or write several languages; multilingual |
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| Becoming part of something |
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| a hot, dry, dustladen wind blowing from northern Africa |
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| an ancient region in West Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers |
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| very fertile area of land, it is said that the earliest known agricultural communities in the world were here |
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| Arabs name for the western part of North Africa means "the place of the sunset" |
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| a memember of any of various ancient and modern peoples originating in the southwestern Asia |
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| islamic law "the correct path" guides daily life according to the prinsiples of the Qur'an |
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| The pilgrimage to Mecca, which every adult Muslim is supposed to make at least once in his or her lifetime |
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| when using irrigation in hot arid climated, the water evaporates and leaves a salty residue, and hurts the fertility of the soil |
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| taking the salt out of sea water to make it drinkable |
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| conversion of non desrt lands into desrts |
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| politics over who gets the supply of water, happens especially when dams are buils |
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| An arab of the desert; nomadic Arab |
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| a long enveloping garment worn by muslim women in public |
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| traditional garment of Muslim women, consists of a long black veil that envelopes the body from head to foot, covers whole face |
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| traditional scarf worn by muslim women to cover the hair and neck and sometimes the whole face |
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| Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, control the oil industry, including prices |
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| Form of government in which god or a deity is recognized as the supreme ruler |
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| a place of greatest congestion, is often hazard |
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| a worldwide Jewish movement that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel |
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| revolt by Palestinian Arabs to protest Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip |
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| the seasonal migration of livestock, and the people who tend them, between lowlands and adjacent mountains |
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| the scattering of the jews to countries outside of Palestine after the Babylonian captivity |
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| a coniferous evergreen forests of subartic lands |
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| a vast nearly level, treeless plain of the artic region |
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| One of the rulars in an oligarchy |
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| an artic or subartic regions perennially frozen subsoil |
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| the view of the wild animals as a useful consumable resource |
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| a rigid policy of segregation of the nonwhite population |
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| economy that solely deals with their one major commodity |
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| when the economy is divided in half, half wealthy, and half poor. South Africa is a good example, how their wealthy white population dominates the economy, and poor black population responsible for labor |
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| to gather the choice things or parts from; to collect |
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| tourism to places having unspoiled natural resources, with minimal impact on the environment being a primary concern |
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| transition from high mortality rates to low mortality rates |
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| The arid area on the flank of the Sahara desert that stretches across six countries from Sengal to Chad |
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| the name European slave traders called Africa |
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| Blood diamonds or conflict diamonds |
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| diamonds which are smuggled out of the country, and which there is a great bloody conflict over |
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| Female genital mutilation |
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| In African countries they practice mutating a females genitals, this has been documented in 27 countries |
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| Practice of having two or more wives at once |
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| a mass extermination of people |
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| process by which arid conditions spread to areas that were previously moist |
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| long cliffs between plateau's |
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| the raising of economically usefull trees |
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| a grassroots approach using small scale projects and loocal skills to create products and services for local consumption |
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| the period where there were many countries trying to be the first to colonize Africa |
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| a disease that affects about 170 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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| sleeping sickness, spread by the bite of the tse tse fly |
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| the type of mosquito that spreads malaria |
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| an infestation with filarial worms common in tropical America and Africa, transmitted by black flies |
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