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Africa Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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AIDS | Acquired Immune Deficency |
Apartheid | System of laws that seperated ratial and ethnic group and limited the rights of blacks in South Africa |
Autocracy | government one leader holds complete power, citizens have no partipant in gov. |
Deforestation | Wide spreaad of cutting down trees |
Democracy | Government in which leaders rule with consent of the citizens |
Desertification | Process by which grasslands change to deserts |
Famine | Lack of food |
Infrastucter | service and facilities people need including roads, high ways, water ,and sewage |
Irrigation | Farming practice followed in dry areas to collect water and bring it to crops |
Landlocked | A country with no land bordering a sea or ocean |
Oligarchy | system of government where control rests in a small people with wealth and power |
Rain forests | dence forest that receives high amounts of rain each years |
Savanna | Broad grass landers in the tropics with few trees |
Uranium | A heavey, silvery-white radioactive metalic chemical element: used in atomic energy |