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