Flashcards: Africa Note Quiz 2
All 20 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Arable | Capable of being farmed productively |
| Timber | Industry in Africa, located in Tropical Rainforest areas |
| Fishing | Coastal industry in Africa |
| Bauxite | A mineral used in making aluminum |
| Diamonds | A valuable substance discovered in Africa. |
| African Nation in OPEC | Nigeria |
| Subsistence Farming | Self-interest farming |
| Slash and Burn Farming | cut down trees and burn them to create rich soil |
| Cash Crops | Growing a large amount of something to sell for profit |
| World Leader in Tea production | Kenya |
| World Leader in Palm Oil production | Nigeria |
| GDP | total dollar value of all final goods and services produced in a country during a single year |
| Life Expectancy | an expected time to live as calculated on the basis of statistical probabilities |
| Population Growth Rate | the total change in a population's size over time |
| Infant Mortality | A figure that describes the number of babies that die within the first year of their lives in a given population. |
| Literacy Rate | The percentage of a country's people who can read and write. |
| Squatter Settlements | These makeshift neighborhoods, constructed of scrap materials, are found in all of the worl'd largest peripheral cities |
| Apartheid | a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites |
| Mobutu Sese Seko | military strongman that gained control in Congo and changed its name to Zaire |
| Rai | a kind of Algerian music developed in the 1920s by poor urban children that is fast paced with danceable rhythms |
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