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1 4 Africa Vocab
Africa Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Developing country | a poor country whose citizens mostly work in agriculture. |
| Life expectancy | the average number of years a person from a certain group lives. |
| Natural resources | naturally occurring materials that ca be used by humans. |
| Scarcity | inadequate supply or shortage. |
| Civil war | fight between different groups within a country. |
| Colony | overseas territory or settlement tied to a parent country. |
| Coral reef | structure formed by the skeletons of small sea animals. |
| Deforestation | widespread cutting of forest. |
| desertification | process by which grasslands change to desserts. |
| drought | long period of extreme dryness and water shortages. |
| Genocide | mass murder of a people because of their race, religion, ethnicity, politics, or culture. |
| Immigrant | Person who moves to a new country to make a permanent home. |
| Imperialism | system of building foreign empires for military and trage advantages. |
| Indigenous | native to or originating from a place. |
| Industrialized country | country in which a great dal of manufacturing occurs. |
| Literacy rate | percentage of people who can read or write. |
| Overgraze | to allow animals to strip areas so bare that plants cannot grow back. |
| refugee | person who flees to another country to avoid persecution or disaster. |
| Savanna | broad grassland with few trees, found in the tropics. |
| Subsistance farms | small plot where a farmer grows only enough food to feed his own family. |