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3 02 Africa Vocab
Africa Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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developing country – | a poor country whose citizens mostly work in agriculture |
life expectancy | the average number of years a person from a certain group live |
natural resources | naturally occurring materials that can be used by humans |
scarcity | inadequate supply or shortage |
civil war | overseas territory or settlement tied to a parent country |
colony | structure formed by the skeletons of small sea animal |
coral reef | |
deforestation | wide spread cutting of forest |
desertification | process by which grasslands change to deserts |
drought | |
genocide | |
immigrant | |
imperialism | |
indigenous | |
industrialized country | |
literacy rate | |
overgraze | |
refugee | |
savanna | |
subsistence farm |