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5 18 Africa Vocab
Africa Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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developing country | Poor country whose citizens mostly wrk in agriculture |
Life expectancy | the average number of years a person from a certain group live |
natural resoures | naturally ocurring materials that can be uesd by humans |
scarcity | inadequate supply or shortage |
civil war | fight between diffrent groups within country |
colony | oversea territity or settlement tied to a parent country |
Coral reef | sturucture formed by a sklelton of a small sea anaimal |
deforestion | windspread cutting of forests |
desrttification | proes which grassland changes into desert |
drought | long period of dryness and water shortage |
genocide | mass murder of people because of their races,religon |
immigrant | a person who moved to a new country to make a permanent homes |
imperialism | system for building foreign empire for military and trade advantage |
indigenous | native or or originating from a place |
industrialized country | a country in which a great deal of manufacturing occurs |
literacy rate | percentage of people who can write and read |
Overgraze | to allow animal to stripe area so bare that plants cannot grow back |
refugee | a person who flees from a country to avoid persecution and distater |
savanna | board grassland with few trees found in the the tropic |
subsistence farm | small plot where framers grow only enough food to feed his family |