Final part 2
Terms
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- station
- cattle or sheep ranch in Australia
- bog
- low swampy land
- geyser
- spring of water heated by molten rock inside the hearth so that from time to time it shoots hot water into the air
- mosque
- place of worship for followers of Islam
- eco-tourist
- person who travels to another country to view its natural wonders
- isthmus
- narrow piece of land that connects two larger pieces of land
- colony
- over seas territory or settlement tied to a parent country
- serf
- farm laborer who could be brought and sold along with the land
- endangered species
- plant or animal under the threat of completely dying out
- clan
- Group of people related to one another
- landlocked
- Country with no land bordering a sea or an ocean
- cottage industry
- Home or village based industry in which family members supply their own equipment to make goods
- drought
- long period of extreme dryness and water shortages
- bush
- rural areas of Australia
- bilingual
- Referring to a country that has two official languages
- campesino
- Colombian Farmer
- slash-and-burn farming
- method of clearing land for planting by cutting and burning forests
- hieroglyphics
- Form of writing that uses signs and symbols
- renaissance
- period of grate achievements in art and learning that began in Italy in the 1300s and spread throughout Europe
- bedouins
- nomadic desert peoples of south west Asia
- navigable
- describes a body of water wide and deep enough for the passage of ships
- subsistence farm
- small plot where a farmer grows only enough food to feed his own family
- cacao
- tropical tree whose seeds are used to make chocolate and cocoa
- tsetse fly
- insect whose bite can kill cattle or humans
- subcontinent
- large land mass that is part of another continent but distinct from it
- overgraze
- to allow animals to strip areas so bare that plants cannot grow back
- apartheid
- system of laws that separate racial and ethnic groups and limited the rights of blacks in South Africa
- literacy rate
- percentage of people who can read and write
- peninsula
- piece of land with water on three sides
- boomerang
- Australian weapon shaped like a bent wing that either strikes a target or curves and sails back to land on the ground near the person who threw it