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8 20 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 the skeletons of small sea animals |
| Deforestation | widespread cutting of forests |
| Desertification | process by which grasslands change to desert |
| Drought | long peeriod of extreme dryness and water shortages |
| Genocide | mass murder of 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 trade advantages |
| Indigenous | native to or originatingfrom a place |
| Industrialized country | country in which a great deal of manufacturing occurs |
| Literacy rate | percentage of people who can read and 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 |
| Subsistence farm | small plot where a farmer grows only enough food to feed his own family |