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Africa Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| AIDS | Acquired Immune Deficency |
| Apartheid | System of laws that seperated ratial and ethnic group and limited the rights of blacks in South Africa |
| Autocracy | government one leader holds complete power, citizens have no partipant in gov. |
| Deforestation | Wide spreaad of cutting down trees |
| Democracy | Government in which leaders rule with consent of the citizens |
| Desertification | Process by which grasslands change to deserts |
| Famine | Lack of food |
| Infrastucter | service and facilities people need including roads, high ways, water ,and sewage |
| Irrigation | Farming practice followed in dry areas to collect water and bring it to crops |
| Landlocked | A country with no land bordering a sea or ocean |
| Oligarchy | system of government where control rests in a small people with wealth and power |
| Rain forests | dence forest that receives high amounts of rain each years |
| Savanna | Broad grass landers in the tropics with few trees |
| Uranium | A heavey, silvery-white radioactive metalic chemical element: used in atomic energy |