| Term | Definition |
|---|
| apartheid | a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites |
| cash crop | a readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market (as vegetables or cotton or tobacco) |
| cataract | a large waterfall |
| clan | group of people related by blood or marriage |
| commercial farming | farms that produce enough food to sell to the country |
| conservation farming | land-management technique that helps protect farmland |
| delta | a low triangular area where a river divides before entering a larger body of water |
| domesticate | make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans |
| e-commerce | Business conducted electronically (buying/selling on web) |
| ecotourism | tourism to exotic or threatened ecosystems to observe wildlife or to help preserve nature |
| estuary | the wide part of a river where it nears the sea |
| escarpment | a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification |
| extended family | a family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives |
| extinction | no longer in existence |
| fault | (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other |
| habitat | the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs |
| harmattan | a dusty wind from the Sahara that blows toward the western coast of Africa during the winter |
| infrastructure | the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area |
| leach | to dissolve out by the action of a percolating liquid |
| lingua franca | a common language used by speakers of different languages |
| mass culture | the culture that is widely disseminated via the mass media |
| nuclear family | a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner |
| oral tradition | pass down from one generation to another by word of mouth |
| poaching | The illegal hunting, capturing or collecting of wildlife. |
| rift valley | a valley with steep sides |
| sanitation | making something sanitary (free of germs) as by sterilizing |
| savanna | a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions |
| sedentary farming | permanent farming land |
| service center | convenient business location for rural dwellers |
| shifting farming | A method in which farmers move every one to three years to find better soil |
| subsistence farming | farming that provides for the basic needs of the farmer without surpluses for marketing |
| universal suffrage | everyone had the right to vote, men and women |
| urbanization | the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban |
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