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7 29 Africa Vocab
Africa Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Developing country | a poor country whose citizens mostly work in agriculture |
life expectancy | the average number of years a person from a certain group of lives |
natural resources | naturally occurring materials that can be used by humans |
Scarcity | inadequate supply or shortage |
civil war | fights between different groups in a country |
colony | overseas territory or settlement tied to a parent country |
coral reef | structure forms by the skeletons of small sea animals |
deforestation | widespread cutting of forests |
desertification | process of which grasslands turn into deserts |
drought | long period of extremedryness and water shortages |
genocide | mass murder of a people because of there race, religion, politics, or culture |
immigrant | person who moves to a newcountry to make a perminant home |
imperialism | system of building foreign empires for millatary or trade advantages |
indigenous | native to or originating from a place |
indrustrialized country | to change an economey to rely more on manufactoring and less on farming |
literacy rate | persentage of people who can read and wright |
overgraze | to asllow amimalls to strip areas so bare that plants cannot grow back |
refugee | person who flees to another country to avoid persecution or disaster |
savanna | broad grasslands with few trees, found in the tropics |
subsistence farm | small plot were a farmer only grows enough food to feed his own family |