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8 14 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 lives. |
Natural resources | naturally occurring materials that can be used by humans. |
Scarcity | inadeguate supply or shortage |
Civil war | Fight between different groups within a country |
Colony | Overseas territory or settled tied to a parent county. |
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 shortages. |
Genocide | Mass murder of a people because of their race, ethnicity, politics, or culture. |
Immigrant | person who moves from a country to make a permanent home. |
Imperialism | system of building foreign empires for military and trade advantages. |
Indigenous | native to or originating at 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 plants cannot grow back. |
Refugee | person who flees to another country to avoid persecution or disaster. |
Savanna | broad grassland with few trees, found in the tropics. |
Subsistence farm | small plot where a farmer grows only enough food to feed his own family. |