Chapter 30 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. a 1,250 mile chain of more than 2,500 reefs and islands along Australia's northeast coast
  2. 3. a French colony comprised of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam
  3. 8. Association of Southeastern Asian Nations
  4. 9. the military conflict resulting from American involvement in South Vietnam to prevent its takeover by Communist North Vietnam
  5. 11. the dry, unpopulated inland region of Australia
  6. 12. Pacific Islands made of coral reefs
  7. 13. a ringlike coral island or string of small islands surrounding a lagoon
  8. 14. a large ship developed by Pacific Islanders to sail the ocean
Down
  1. 1. a powerful empire that lasted roughly from the 9th to the 15th centuries in what is now Cambodia
  2. 4. the group of islands in the Pacific, including Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia
  3. 5. a small ship used in lagoons of islands where Pacific Islander's settled
  4. 6. the isolated reef, located in the Marshall Islands of the central pacific, that was the site of U.S. nuclear bomb tests
  5. 7. Pacific islands created by volcanos
  6. 8. a set of closely grouped islands
  7. 10. a state organized as a ring of power around a central court, and which was used instead of borders in early Southeast Asian states