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1 06 Africa Vocab
Africa Vocabulary
| 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 | natural occurring metarials that can be use 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 reff | dtructure formed by the skeletons of small sea animals |
| deforestaion | widespread cutting of forestts |
| desertification | process by which grasslands change to desert |
| drought | long period of extreme dryness and water shortages |
| immigrant | person who moves to a new country to make a permanent |
| imperialism | system of building foreign empires for military and trade advantages |
| idigenous | native to or originating from a place |
| industrialized country | country in which a great deal of manufacture occures |
| literacy rate | percetage of people who can read and write |
| overgraze | to allow animals to strip areas so bare that plants cannot grow back |
| refugee | persons who flees to another country to avoid persecution disaster |
| savanna | broa grassland with few trees found in the tropics |