8 15 Africa Vocab Word Scramble
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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 resources | naturally occurring materials that can be used by humans |
scarcity | inadequate supply or shortage |
civil war | fight 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 | wide spread cutting of forest |
desertification | process by witch grass turns to desert |
drought | long period of extreme dryness |
genocide | mass murder of people |
immigrant | person who moves to a new country |
imperialism | system of building foreign empires for military |
indigenous | native to or originating from a place |
literacy rate | percentage of people who can read and right |
refugee | person who flees to another country to avoid persecution |
savanna | broad grassland with few trees |
overgraze | to allow animals to strip areas so bare that plants cannot grow back |
industrialized country | country in wich a great deal of manufacturing occurs |
subsistence farm | farmer can only grow enough food to feed his own family |
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