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Vocabulary-Africa Flashcards

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The average of people living in a given area.

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Population density

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A program to reform the structure of an economy.

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Structural adjustment program

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A open air market; a street lined with shops and stalls

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Bazaar

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Wealth in the form of money or property owned or used in business.

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Capital

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A usually dry riverbed or gully that temporarily holds water from a sudden downpour

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Wadi

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A large group of merchants who join together to travel in safety

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Caravan

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A market in an Arab community

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Souk

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A person who flees the country to escape the danger or unfair treatment

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Refugee

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The religious belief that such thing as trees,rivers,and the sky contain gods or spirits

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Animism

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A dividing ridge between two basins

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Watershed

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A system of government in which one ethnic group rules over the others

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Ethanocracy

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Region in Africa just south of the Sahara

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Sahel

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The system be which countries set up colonies to secure sources of raw materials and markets for their products

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Colonialism

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An area of high flat land

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Platue

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A steep cliff that separates two level areas of differing elevations

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Escarpment

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Type of natural vegetation that is adapted to Mediterranean climates; small evergreen trees and low bushes, or scrubs

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Chaparral

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Tropical grassland with scattered trees, located in the warm lands near the equator

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Savanna

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History passed down by word of mouth

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Oral history

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Practice of moving flocks to different pastures throughout the year

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Nomadic herding

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Dissolving and washing away of nutrients in the soil

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Leaching

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Reduction on the productive potential of the land

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Land degradation

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Land that forms at the mouth of some rivers by soil that is dropped as the river slows and enters the sea

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Delta

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Wind storm that blows dust, hot air, and grit

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Sandstorm

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In Egypt, a system by which water and silt were controlled by embankments and time released to irrigate farmlands

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Basin irrigation

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Natural or artificial lake used to collect water for human needs

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Reservoir

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Irrigation system used that provides necessary water to the land throughout the year

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Perennial irrigation

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Old section of a North African city, usually centered around a mosque

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Median

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Food for grazing animals

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Forage

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Process of stripping the land of its trees

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Deforestation

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Sudden overflow of a ruler or government, often involving violet force or the threat of force

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Coup

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