7 10 Africa Vocab Word Scramble
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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 resourcees | naturally occurring materials that can be used by humans |
scarcity | inadequate supply or shortage |
civil war | a fight between different groups in a country |
colony | overseas territory or settlement tied to a parent country |
coral reef | structure formed by the skeletons of small sea animals |
deforestation | to cut down and clear away the trees or forests |
decertification | to revoke the certification of:voted to decertify the union |
drought | a long period withought any water |
genocide | the systomatic and widespread exterminated or attempted extermination of an entire national, ratial, religious, or ethnic group |
immigrant | a person who leaves one country to settle permanetly in another counthe |
imperialism | the policy of direct extentions of sovereighty and dominion |
indigenous | originating and living or occoring naturally in a area or enviornment |
industrialized country | it is a industrialized country is a state that which economies is based on industries |
literacy rate | the condition or quality knowledgeable in a particular subject or feild |
overgraze | to permit animals to graze |
refugee | somebody seeking safe place: somebody who seeks or takes refuge in a foreign country, especially to avoid war or persecution |
savanna | grassy plain: a flat grassland, sometimes with scattered trees, in a tropical or subtropical region |
subsistance farm | (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) a type of farming in which most of the produce (subsistence crop) is consumed by the farmer and his family, leaving little or nothing to be marketed |
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