Vocab Master (Ch. 3-4)
1. meteorologist (pg.33)- an expert in or student of meteorology; a weather forecaster.
2. climatologist (pg.33)- someone who studies long-term weather trends or climatology
3. typhoon (pg.29)- a tropical storm in the region of the Indian or western Pacific oceans.
4. fiefdoms (pg.37)- anything, as an organization or real estate, owned or controlled by one dominant person or group.
5. larynx (pg.42)- the hollow muscular organ forming an air passage to the lungs and holding the vocal cords in humans and other mammals; the voice box.
6. paleontologist (pg.44)- a scientist who studies fossils
7. javelins (pg.44)- a light spear thrown in a competitive sport or as a weapon.
8. trajectories (pg.45)- the path followed by a projectile flying or an object moving under the action of given forces.
9. Australopithecus (pg.45)- a fossil bipedal primate with both apelike and human characteristics, found in Pliocene and lower Pleistocene deposits ( circa 4 million to 1 million years old) in Africa.
10. hominids (pg.45)- a primate of a family ( Hominidae ) that includes humans and their fossil ancestors.
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