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 of lives
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natural resources | naturally occurring materials that can be used by humans
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Scarcity | inadequate supply or shortage
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civil war | fights between different groups in a country
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colony | overseas territory or settlement tied to a parent country
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coral reef | structure forms by the skeletons of small sea animals
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deforestation | widespread cutting of forests
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desertification | process of which grasslands turn into deserts
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drought | long period of extremedryness and water shortages
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genocide | mass murder of a people because of there race, religion, politics, or culture
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immigrant | person who moves to a newcountry to make a perminant home
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imperialism | system of building foreign empires for millatary or trade advantages
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indigenous | native to or originating from a place
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indrustrialized country | to change an economey to rely more on manufactoring and less on farming
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literacy rate | persentage of people who can read and wright
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overgraze | to asllow amimalls to strip areas so bare that plants cannot grow back
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refugee | person who flees to another 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 were a farmer only grows enough food to feed his own family
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