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7 29 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 of lives |
| natural resources | naturally occurring materials that can be used by humans |
| Scarcity | inadequate supply or shortage |
| civil war | fights between different groups in a country |
| colony | overseas territory or settlement tied to a parent country |
| coral reef | structure forms by the skeletons of small sea animals |
| deforestation | widespread cutting of forests |
| desertification | process of which grasslands turn into deserts |
| drought | long period of extremedryness and water shortages |
| genocide | mass murder of a people because of there race, religion, politics, or culture |
| immigrant | person who moves to a newcountry to make a perminant home |
| imperialism | system of building foreign empires for millatary or trade advantages |
| indigenous | native to or originating from a place |
| indrustrialized country | to change an economey to rely more on manufactoring and less on farming |
| literacy rate | persentage of people who can read and wright |
| overgraze | to asllow amimalls to strip areas so bare that plants cannot grow back |
| refugee | person who flees to another country to avoid persecution or disaster |
| savanna | broad grasslands with few trees, found in the tropics |
| subsistence farm | small plot were a farmer only grows enough food to feed his own family |