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1 12 Africa Vocab
Africa Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| developing country | a poor country whose citizens mostly work in agriculture |
| life expectance | the average number of years a person from a certain group lives |
| natural resources | naturally occurring materials the can be used by by human |
| scarcity | inadequate supply or shortage |
| civil war | fight between dirrerent groupes within a country |
| imperialism | system of building foreign empires of military and trade advanantiges |
| colony | overseas territory or settlement tired to a parent country |
| coral reef | structure formed by the skeletons |
| deforestation | widespred cutting of forests |
| 9. desertification | process by which grasslands change to desert |
| 10. drought | long period of exteme dryness and water shortages |
| 11. genocide | mass murder of a people because of there race religion |
| 12. immigrant | person who moves to a new country to make a permanent home |
| indigenous | native to or origination from a placve |
| industrialized country | country in which a great deal of manufacturing occurs |
| literacy rate | percentage of people who can read and write |
| overgraze | to allow animals to strip areas so bare that plants cannot grow back |
| refugee | person who flees to anouther country |
| savanna | broad grassland with few trees found in the tropics |
| subsistence farm | small plot where a farmer grows only enough food to feed his own family |