Africa Vocab Terms
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vismaypandia on March 8, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Deforestation | To clear large amounts of forests |
| Desertification | Farmland becoming deserts; man causes desertification by overgrazing. |
| Drought | Natural cause for famines; many years without rainfall. |
| Water pollution | Factories, animals, and human are polluting water sources; people upstream pollute water for people downstream. |
| Escarpment | A steep slope or long cliff that separates two relatively level areas of differing elevations. |
| Plateau | An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land |
| Savanna | The term for the flat, grassy, mostly treeless plain in a tropical grassland region. |
| GDP | The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a nation during a specified period. (Gross Domestic Product) |
| Literacy rate | The percentage of people over the age of 15 with the ability to read and write |
| Urbanization | The state of being or becoming a community with urban characteristics. |
| Ethnic group | People of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture |
| Oral history | Evidence taken from the spoken words of people who have knowledge of past events and traditions. |
| Extended family | A group of relatives, such as those of three generations, who live in close geographic proximity rather than under the same roof. |
| Clan | A large group of relatives, friends, or associates. |
| Middle passage | A large mass of water in the Atlantic, which was not affected by the slave trade. |
| Apartheid | A policy of racial segregation, practiced in the Republic of South Africa, involving political, legal, and economic discrimination against nonwhites. |
| Universal suffrage | The extension of voting privileges to all adults, without distinction as to race, sex, belief or social status. |
| Cash crop | A crop grown only for sale |
| Commercial farming | Farmers grow their crops to sell. |
| Subsistence farming | When farmers farm to survive and feed their family |
| Shifting farming | An agricultural practice using the rotation of fields rather than of crops. |
| Sedentary farming | When a farmer lives on the same farmland all his life |
| Aquifers | A rock layer that stores & allows water to pass through it |
| Oasis | Water from an aquifer has reached the surface, supports vegetation and wildlife |
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