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5 28 Africa Vocab
Africa Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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developing country | a poor country whose citizens mostly work in agriclture |
life expentency | the average number of years a person from a certain group lives |
natural resources | naturally occuring 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 skeletons of small sea animals |
deforestation | widespread cutting of forest |
desertification | process by which grasslands change to desert |
drought | long period of extrime dryness and water shortages |
genocide | mass murder of a people because of their race, religon, ethnicity, poltics, or cultre |
immigrant | person who moves to a new country to make a permanet home |
imperialism | system of building foreighn empires for millitary and trade advantages |
indigenous | native to or originating from a place |
industrialized country | country in which a great deal of maufacturing occurs |
literacy rate | persentage of people who can read and write |
overgraze | to allow animals to strip areas so bare that plants cannot grow back |
refugee | person who flees to another country to avoid persecution or disaster |
savanna | broad grassland with few trees, found in tropics |
subsistence farm | small plot where a farmer grows only enough food to feed his own family |