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  • 101Atlas Mountains — a mountain range in NW Africa, extending through Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. Highest peak, Mt. Tizi, 14,764 ft. (4500 m). * * * Mountain system, northwestern Africa. It extends some 1,200 mi (2,000 km) from the Moroccan port of Agadir in the… …

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  • 102pika — /puy keuh/, n. any of several small, brown to gray tailless mammals of the genus Ochotona, resembling rabbits with short ears and legs and inhabiting western mountains of North America and parts of eastern Europe and Asia. [1820 30; recorded by… …

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  • 103protozoan — /proh teuh zoh euhn/, n., pl. protozoans, (esp. collectively) protozoa / zoh euh/, adj. Biol. n. 1. any of a diverse group of eukaryotes, of the kingdom Protista, that are primarily unicellular, existing singly or aggregating into colonies, are… …

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  • 104Yunnan — /yoo nan , nahn /; Chin. /yyuun nahn /, n. Pinyin. 1. a province in S China. 20,510,000; 168,417 sq. mi. (436,200 sq. km). Cap.: Kunming. 2. former name of Kunming. Also, Wade Giles, Yünnan. * * * or Yün nan Province (pop., 2000 est.: 42,880,000) …

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  • 105Turkic peoples — Any of various peoples who speak one of the Turkic languages. They are connected with the Tuque (T u chüeh), nomadic people who in the 6th century AD founded an empire stretching from Mongolia to the Black Sea (see Turkistan). In the 11th century …

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  • 106Lewis, David Kellogg — ▪ 2002       American philosopher (b. Sept. 28, 1941, Oberlin, Ohio d. Oct. 14, 2001, Princeton, N.J.), created the theory of “modal realism,” which considered possible worlds that is, all conceivable states of affairs that do not involve logical …

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  • 107art, African — ▪ visual arts Introduction       the visual arts of native Africa, particularly sub Saharan Africa, including such media as sculpture, painting, pottery, rock art, textiles, masks, personal decoration, and jewelry.       For more general… …

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  • 108charadriiform — ▪ bird order Introduction    any member of the large group of birds (bird) that includes the sandpipers (sandpiper), plovers (plover), gulls (gull), auks (auk), and their relatives. These birds form an important and familiar segment of the… …

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  • 109galliform — ▪ order of birds Introduction    any of the gallinaceous (that is, fowl like or chickenlike (chicken)) birds (bird). The order includes about 290 species, of which the best known are the turkeys (turkey), chickens, quail, partridge, pheasant and… …

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  • 110marine ecosystem — Introduction       complex of living organisms in the ocean environment.       Marine waters cover two thirds of the surface of the Earth. In some places the ocean is deeper than Mount Everest is high; for example, the Mariana Trench and the… …

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