Term | Definition |
developing country | a poor country whose citizens mostly work in agriculture. |
life expectancy | the average number of years a person from a certain group lives. |
natural resource | naturally occurring materials that can be used by a person. |
scarcity | inadequate supply or shortage. |
civil war | fighting between different groups within a country. |
colony | overseas territory or settlement tied to a parent country. |
coral reef | structure formed by skeletons of small sea animals. |
deforestation | widespread cutting of forests. |
desertification | process by which changing grass lands to deserts. |
drought | long period of extream dryness and water shortage. |
genocide | mass murder of people because of there race, religon, ethnicity, polotics, or culture. |
immigration | a person who moves to another country to make a perminint home. |
imperialism | system of building fogen empires for military and trade advantages. |
indegenous | native to or originating from a place. |
industrialized country | country in which a great deal in manufacuring occurs. |
literacy rate | percentage of people who can read and write. |
overgraze | to allow animals to strip areas so bare that plants can not come back. |
refugee | person who flees to another country to avoid persicution or disaster. |
savanna | brod grass land with few trees, found in the tropics. |
substance farm | small plot where farmers only grow enough to feed his own family. |