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Unit 7 Vocab
7-5 Petersen Unit 7 Vocab: Ch. 19-21 (Africa South of the Sahara)
Word | Definition |
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mangrove | tropical tree with roots that extend both above and beneath water |
savanna | broad grassland in the Tropics with few trees |
harmattan | dry, dusty wind that blows south from the Sahara Desert |
subsistence farm | small plot where a farmer grows only enough food to feed his own family |
cacao | tropical tree whose seeds are used to make chocolate and cocoa |
compound | group of houses totally surrounded by one wall |
civil war | fight among different groups within a country |
overgraze | to allow livestock to strip areas so bare that plants cannot grow back |
drought | long period of exetreme dryness |
desertification | process of grasslands, marginal land or steppes drying up and changing to deserts |
bauxite | mineral used to make aluminum |
phosphate | mineral-salt used in fertilizers |
canopy | umbrella-like covering formed by the tops of trees in a rain forest |
hydroelectric power | electricity generated by flowing water |
tsetse fly | insect whose bite can kill cattle or humans with a deadly disease called sleeping sickness |
deforestation | widespread cutting of forests |
coral reef | structure at or near the water's surface formed by the skeletons of small sea animals |
poaching | illegal hunting of protected animals |
free enterprise system | economic system allowing people to own& run a busines w/limited(little) gov. intervention |
cassava | plant with roots that can be ground into flour to make bread or porridge |
sisal | plant fiber used to make rope and twine |
habitat | type of enviroment in which a particular animal species lives |
ecotourist | person who travels to an area to see it & help improve it while he/she is there |
plantains | kind of banana |
autonomy | self-government -strong enough country not to need a big brother country to help them run it |
watershed | region drained by a river |
endangered species | plant or animal under the threat of completely dying out |
genocide | mass murder of people because of their race, ethnicity, politics, culture or religion |
refugee | person who flees/runs to another country to escape persecution/harm or disaster |
plate | huge slab of rock that makes up the earth's crust |
clan | group of people related to one and other |
industrilized country | country in with lots of manufacturing occurs-more factories than subsistence farmers |
Boers | Dutch people(Netherlands/Holland) who were the first European settlers in S. Africa |
apartheid | system of laws that separated racial and ethnic groups and limited the rights of blacks in South Africa-very unfair to blacks |
township | crowded neighborhoods outside cities in South Africa where most non-whites (kept away from whites--very unfair to non-whites) |
enclave | small territory/country entirely surrounded by a larger country |
slash-and-burn farming | method of clearing land for planting by cutting and burning forests |
cyclone | intense/severe storm- heavy rain & high winds-a hurrican in the S.Pacific or Indian Ocean |
copperbelt | large area of copper mines in northern Zambia |
sorghum | tall grass with seeds that are used as grain and to make syrup |
exclave | small part of a country that is separated from it |