8 16 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 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 period of extreme dryness and water shortage |
genocide | mass murder of people because of their race, religon, 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 or trade advantages |
indigenous | native to or origininating from a place |
Industrialized country | country in which a great deal of manufactoring 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 person who flees another country to avoid persecution or disaster |
Savanna | broad grassland with a few trees, found in the tropics |
Subsistance farm | small plot where a farmer only grows enough food to feed his own family |
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