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geography chp 13
chp 13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Horn of Africa | the four contries of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, And Somalia, which stickout like a rhinoceeros horn onthe eastern coast of AFrica |
| strategic | Important for military reasons |
| Geologic fault | A break in the earth's crust |
| Great Rift | A long Vally in Africa that is a geological fault |
| evaporate | the changing of liquid into water vaport |
| population distribution | where people live |
| Bantu | an african cultural group that mostly farms for a living |
| Nilotic | an African cultural group that mostly herdsanimals for a living |
| mosque | an islamic house of worship |
| Swahili | an African language that combines African languages with Arabic, Portuguese, Malay, and Persian words and that first developed for the purpase of trade |
| sdtarvation | suffering or dying from lack of food |
| dictator | a person who makes all the laws for a country and rules by force |
| horticulture | the growing of flowers, fruits and vegetables for sale |
| safari | an African hunting trip |
| endangered | an animal or plant that may become extinct or cease to exist |
| poaching | hunting illegaly in a park or in a place kept for animals |
| processing | preparing a raw material for use or sale. |