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1 06 Africa Vocab
Africa Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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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 |