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Africa Vocabulary

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developing county   a poor country whose citizens mostly work in agriculture  
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life expectancy   the average number of years a person from a certain group lives  
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natural resources   naturally occurring materials that can be used by humans  
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scarcity   inadequate supply or shortage  
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civil war   fight between different groups within a country  
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colony   overseas territory or settlement tied to a parent country  
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coral reef   structure formed by skeletons of small sea animals  
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deforestation   widespread cutting of forests  
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drought   long period of extreme dryness and water shortages  
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genocide   mass murder of a people because of their race, religion, ethnicity, politics, or culture  
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immigrant   person who moves to a new country to make a permanent home  
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imperialism   system of building foreign empires for military and trade avantages  
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indigenous   native to or originating from a place  
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industrialized country   country in which a great deal of manufacturing occurs  
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literacy rate   percentage of people that can read and write  
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overgraze   to allow animals to strip areas so bare that plants cannot grow back  
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refugee   person who flees to another country to avoid persecution or disaster  
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savanna   broad grassland with few trees, found in the tropics  
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subsistence farm   small plot where a farmer grows only enough food to feed his own family  
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