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Africa Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| bantu | a language family spoken in Central and South Africa; a member of any African group that speaks that language |
| subsistence farming | the practice of growing just enough crops for personal use and not for sale |
| Swahili | a mixed African-Arabic culture that developed along the East coast of Africa |
| stateless society | a group of independent villages organized into clans and led by a local ruler or clan head without any central gov't |
| lineage group | extended family unit that has combined into a community |
| apartheid | "apartness"; the system of racial segregation in South Africa from 1950s-1991 |
| transition zone | an area in which the properties of the land undergo a radical change |
| delta | an often triangular-shaped section of land formed as the waters of a river slow down and split into many channels as they deposit sand and silt that has been carried downriver |
| domesticate | to adapt plants and animals from the wild for human use |
| animist | pertaining to traditional religious beliefs in which nature and objects, such as animals and mountains, are thought to have spirits |
| patriarchal | a family that is headed by a male family member |
| clan | a large group of people descended from same ancestor |
| nuclear family | a family unit made up of a husband, wife, and children |
| oral tradition | the practice of passing down stories from generation-generation by word of mouth |
| desertification | the destruction of land in arid and semi-arid climates |
| rift valley | a crack in Earth's surface created by the shifting of tectonic plates |
| cataract | a large waterfall |
| indigenous | native to a place |
| lingua franca | a common language used among people with different native languages |
| overfarming | situation in which land is repeatedly farmed so that the soil nutrients are depleted |
| habitat | area with conditions suitable for certain plants/animals to live |
| carrying capacity | the population that an area will support without undergoing deterioration |
| poaching | illegal hunting |
| reservoir | a natural/artificial lake used as source of water |
| river plain | plain formed by deposit of sediment over long period of time by one or more rivers |
| conflict diamonds | diamonds that are mined in war-torn areas and are used to finance wars |
| infrastructure | the set of systems that affect how well a place/organization operates, i.e. telephone/transportation systems, within country |
| griots | traditional oral historians, storytellers, singers, and musicians of West Africa |
| e-commerce | buying and selling on Internet |
| montane | referring to a mountainous area |
| internally displaced person | refugee within his/her own country |
| biofuel | fuel created from living matter (i.e. trees) |
| escarpment | a long cliff that separates lands at 2 different altitudes |
| rain shadow | condition created when winds blow in mostly 1 direction over mountains/ other elevated terrain |
| groundwater | water that lies underground and feeds wells and springs |
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