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720 Africa vocab
Africa vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Developing country | A poor country whose citizens mostly wok in agriculture. |
| Life expentancy | Te averange number of years a person from a certain group lives. |
| Natural resources | Naturally occorring materials that can be used by humans. |
| Scarcity | Inaequate supply or shotarge. |
| Civil war | fight between different groups within a country. |
| Colony | Overseas territory or settlement tied to a parent country. |
| Coral reef | Structure formed by the skeletons of small sea animals. |
| Deforestation | Widespread cutting of forest |
| Desertificaton | process by which grasslands. |
| Drought | Long period of extreme dryness and water shortages. |
| Genocide | Mass murder of a people because of their race,religion,ethnicity,politics,or culture. |
| Immigrant | Person who moves to a new country to make a pernament home. |
| Imperialism | System of building foregin empires for military and trade advantages |
| Indigenous | Native to or originathing from a place |
| 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 plnets cannot grow back. |
| Refugee | person who flees to another country to avoid persecution or dister |
| Savanna | broad grassland with few threes found in the tropics. |
| Subsistence farm | Small plot where a farmer grows only enough food to feed his own family. |