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1 12 Africa Vocab
Africa Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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developing country | a poor country whose citizens mostly work in agriculture |
life expectance | the average number of years a person from a certain group lives |
natural resources | naturally occurring materials the can be used by by human |
scarcity | inadequate supply or shortage |
civil war | fight between dirrerent groupes within a country |
imperialism | system of building foreign empires of military and trade advanantiges |
colony | overseas territory or settlement tired to a parent country |
coral reef | structure formed by the skeletons |
deforestation | widespred cutting of forests |
9. desertification | process by which grasslands change to desert |
10. drought | long period of exteme dryness and water shortages |
11. genocide | mass murder of a people because of there race religion |
12. immigrant | person who moves to a new country to make a permanent home |
indigenous | native to or origination from a placve |
industrialized country | country in which a great deal of manufacturing occurs |
literacy rate | percentage of people who can read and write |
overgraze | to allow animals to strip areas so bare that plants cannot grow back |
refugee | person who flees to anouther country |
savanna | broad grassland with few trees found in the tropics |
subsistence farm | small plot where a farmer grows only enough food to feed his own family |