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720 Africa vocab
Africa vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Developing country | A poor country whose citizens mostly wok in agriculture. |
Life expentancy | Te averange number of years a person from a certain group lives. |
Natural resources | Naturally occorring materials that can be used by humans. |
Scarcity | Inaequate supply or shotarge. |
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 forest |
Desertificaton | process by which grasslands. |
Drought | Long period of extreme dryness and water shortages. |
Genocide | Mass murder of a people because of their race,religion,ethnicity,politics,or culture. |
Immigrant | Person who moves to a new country to make a pernament home. |
Imperialism | System of building foregin empires for military and trade advantages |
Indigenous | Native to or originathing from 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 plnets cannot grow back. |
Refugee | person who flees to another country to avoid persecution or dister |
Savanna | broad grassland with few threes found in the tropics. |
Subsistence farm | Small plot where a farmer grows only enough food to feed his own family. |