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3 02 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 live |
| natural resources | naturally occurring materials that can be used by humans |
| scarcity | inadequate supply or shortage |
| civil war | overseas territory or settlement tied to a parent country |
| colony | structure formed by the skeletons of small sea animal |
| coral reef | |
| deforestation | wide spread cutting of forest |
| desertification | process by which grasslands change to deserts |
| drought | |
| genocide | |
| immigrant | |
| imperialism | |
| indigenous | |
| industrialized country | |
| literacy rate | |
| overgraze | |
| refugee | |
| savanna | |
| subsistence farm |