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8 15 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 can 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 skeletons of small sea animals |
| deforestation | wide spread cutting of forest |
| desertification | process by witch grass turns to desert |
| drought | long period of extreme dryness |
| genocide | mass murder of people |
| immigrant | person who moves to a new country |
| imperialism | system of building foreign empires for military |
| indigenous | native to or originating from a place |
| literacy rate | percentage of people who can read and right |
| refugee | person who flees to another country to avoid persecution |
| savanna | broad grassland with few trees |
| overgraze | to allow animals to strip areas so bare that plants cannot grow back |
| industrialized country | country in wich a great deal of manufacturing occurs |
| subsistence farm | farmer can only grow enough food to feed his own family |