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Africa
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Social Studies
7th Grade
12/15/2012

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Commercial Agriculture
Definition
a type of agriculture whereby a farmer cultivates crops for sale in order to gain profit
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Subsistence Agriculture
Definition
a type of farming in which most of the produce is consumed by the farmer and his family, leaving little or nothing to be market
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Limited Agriculture
Definition
a person with a total household income at or below the national proverty level
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Sahel
Definition
a semi-arid region just south of the Sahara
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Rain forest

 

Definition
a tropic forest, ususally of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall
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Plateau
Definition
a land area having a relatively level of surface considerably raised bove adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons
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Escarpment
Definition
a steep slope separating two flat areas of different heights
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Sahara Desert
Definition
the world's largest desert
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Victoria Falls
Definition
a 355-foot waterfall on the Zambezi River in South Central Africa
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Nile River
Definition
the longest river in the world, which empties into the Mediterranean Sea in northeast Egypt
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Mount Kilimanjaro
Definition
the highest mountain in Africa, in northeast Tanzania
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Tropic of Cancer
Definition
a line of latitude about 23 degrees to the north of the equator
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Tropic of Capricorn
Definition
a line of latitude about 23 degrees to the south of the equator
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Trans-Saharan Trade
Definition
trade across the Sahara
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Slave Trade
Definition
the procuring, transporting, and selling of human beings as slaves
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Imperialism
Definition
the practice of one country controlling the government and economy of another country or territory
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7 Nations of Europe that Colonized Africa
Definition
Germany, France, Great Britain, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Belgium
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King Leopold II
Definition
founder of the Congo Free State- a private projecet of forced labour for rubber and ivory
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Belgian Congo
Definition
a republic in Central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960
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Middle Passage
Definition
the journey taken by slaves on ships from West Africa to the West Indies
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Human Development Index (HDI)
Definition
a tool developed by the United Nations (U.N) to measure and rank countries' level of social and economic development based on income, health, and education
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GDP per Capita
Definition
the average measure of a country's overall economic output
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Life Expectancy
Definition
the average period that a person may expect to live
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Infant Mortality
Definition
the rate of death before a baby's first birthday out of 1,000 babies
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Maternal Mortality
Definition
the rate of a woman dying during child labor out of 100,000 women/ mothers
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Expected Years of Schooling
Definition
average number of formal schooling that children are expected to receive
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HIV/AIDS
Definition
Human Immunodefinciency Virus
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Population Density
Definition
a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume
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