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afric west chp 12
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| dredge | to clear away the sand mud from the bottom of a waterway |
| ascarpment | a line of cliffs or slopes from a plateua to the plains below |
| lagoon | a shallow body of water |
| sandbar | a ridge of sand built up by ocean waves |
| harmattan | the dry dusty wind on the atlantic coast of west africa |
| mangrove | a tropical tree that grows on swampy coastal ground |
| desertification | the change fro land that prouduces crops to desert |
| sahel | a belt of semiarid land that stretches across Afirca from Senegal on the west coast to the highlands of Ethiopia in the east |
| Savanna | a flat grassy plain in the tropics with few trees |
| cultivator | a farmer who grows crops to sell to support the |
| missionary | a member of the church who travels to spread religious beliefs |
| pastoralist | a person who looks after animals |
| ansector worship | worshiping members of ones family who lived long ago |
| animist | a personwho believes that things in nature contian spirits |
| shantytowns | a slum that surrounds a city and that has shelters made fromweak materials |
| life expentancy | the average number of years a person lives |
| intercropping | planting different crops in the same field |
| staple crop | a food that people eat most often |
| raw material | somthieng is made into a finished product for sale |
| shifiting agriculture | a type of farming in which farmers move fro one plot of land to another |
| trade inbalance | a situation in which a country pays more for imports than what it can pay for with exports |
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