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Africa and Australia
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| System of laws that separated racial and ethnic groups and limited the rights of blacks in South Africa | Apartheid |
| Australian weapon shaped like a bent wing that either strikes a target or curves back toward the hunter | boomerang |
| Fight between different groups within a country | civil war |
| Structure formed by the skeletons of small sea animals | coral reef |
| Widespread cutting of forests | deforestation |
| Process by which grasslands change to desert | desertification |
| Long period of extreme dryness and water shortages | drought |
| Plant or animals under the threat of completely dying out | endangered species |
| Natural surroundings | environment |
| Type of environment in which a particular animal species lives | habitat |
| Person who moves to a new country to make a permanent home | immigrant |
| Native to or originating from a place | indigenous |
| Country in which a great deal of manufacturing occurs | industrialized country |
| Mammal that carries its young in a pouch | marsupial |
| To allow animals to strip areas so bare that plants cannot grow back | overgraze |
| Illegal hunting of protected animals | poaching |
| Person who flees to another country to avoid persecution or disaster | refugee |
| Broad grassland with few trees found in the tropics | savanna |
| Small plot where a farmer grows only enough food to feed his own family | subsistence farm |
| Type of fly found in Africa south of the Sahara, whose bite can transmit a parasite that carries a disease called sleeping sickness | tsetse fly |
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