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SubSaharanAfrica
Sub Saharan Africa Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Escarpment | a long, steep slope, especially one at the edge of a plateau or separating areas of land at different heights. |
| Cataract | a waterfall containing great volumes of water rushing over a precipice. |
| Rift Valley | a lowland region that forms where Earth's tectonic plates move apart, or rift |
| Fault | a fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock. |
| Delta | wetlands that form as rivers empty their water and sediment into another body of water, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. |
| Estuary | a partially enclosed, coastal water body where freshwater from rivers and streams mixes with salt water from the ocean |
| Leach | the process of water carrying soluble substances or small particles through soil or rock |
| Savanna | typically hot, dry land with seasonal rains and tall grasses |
| Harmattan | cool dry wind that blows from the northeast or east in the western Sahara and is strongest from late November to mid-March |
| Sanitation | the ability to maintain hygienic conditions, through services such as garbage collection, industrial and hazardous waste management, and wastewater treatment and disposal |
| Urbanization | the movement and concentration of large groups of people to cities |
| Domesticate | the taming of both plants and animals for human use |
| Apartheid | a system of legislation that upheld segregation against non-white citizens of South Africa |
| Universal Suffrage | the right of all adult citizens to vote in an election |
| Mass Culture | he universe of cultural consumer goods that are distributed massively in the market |
| Lingua Franca | a language used to aid communication and commerce between people with different native languages. A common language shared by people from many language backgrounds. |
| Oral tradition | a community's cultural and historical traditions passed down by word of mouth or example from one generation to another without written instruction |
| Extended family | A household in which parents, children, grandparents, and other relatives live |
| Clan | a group (as in the Scottish Highlands) made up of households whose heads claim to have a common ancestor |
| Nuclear Family | a father and a mother, or a single parent, and their children |
| Subsistence Farming | people grow a variety of crops in order to feed their families and not to sell those crops on the markets. |
| Shifting Farming | the practice of farming by clearing land for farming by slashing vegetation and burning debris, farming there for a while, then moving on and repeating the process. |
| Sedentary Farming | Farming in the same place generation after generation |
| Commercial Farming | Farming for money, not for survival |
| Cash Crop | an agricultural crop that is purposely made strictly to be sold in a market environment for as much money as possible |
| Conservation Farming | Farming in a way to reduce any damage done to the earth by practicing crop rotation and avoiding the use of pesticides and chemicals. |
| Infrastructure | The structures needed for society to be successful: roads, sewage, electricity, etc. |
| E-commerce | a type of business model in which business transactions are done over the world wide web or over an electronic medium. |
| Poaching | the illegal trafficking and killing of wildlife |
| Eco-tourism | traveling to natural areas with a focus on environmental conservation. Ex. Going on a safari in Kenya where animals are treated well and the profits from the safari help the people and animals of Kenya. |
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