Africa Vocabulary
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Developing Country | A poor country whose citizens work mostly in agriculture.
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Life Expectancy | The average number of years a person from a curtain group lives
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Natural Resource | Naturally occurring materials that can be used by humans
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Scarcity | Inadequate supply or shortage
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Civil War | Fight between different groups within the country
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Colony | Over seas territory or settlement tied to a parent country
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Coral Reef | Structure formed by the skeletons of small sea animals
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Deforestation | Wide spread cutting of forests
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Desertification | Process by which grasslands turn to deserts
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Drought | Long period of dryness and water shortages
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Genocide | Mass murder of people because of their race, religion, ethnicity, politics or culture.
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Immigrant | Person who moves from one county to another to make a permanent home
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Imperialism | A system of building foreign empires for military and trade advances
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Indigenous | Native to or originating from a place
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Industrialized Country | Country in which a great deal of manufacturing is done
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Literacy Rate | Percentage of people that can read and write
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Overgraze | To allow animals to strip areas so bare that plants cant grow back
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Refugee | A person who flees to a different country to avoid persecution or disaster
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Savanna | Broad grasslands with few trees, found in the tropics
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Subsistence farm | Small plot where a farmer grows only enough food to feed his own family
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