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Geography Ch 13 vocab
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Geography
7th Grade
03/06/2012

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tropical tree with roots that extend both above and beneath the water
Definition
mangrove
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tropical graslands
Definition
savannas
Term
a dusty wind
Definition
harmattan
Term
small plots where farmers grow just enough food to feed their families
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subsistence
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tree whose seeds are used to make chocolate and cocoa
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cacoa
Term
group of houses surrounded by walls
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compound
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fight between different groups within a country
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civil war
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strip land so bare that plants cant grow back
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overgraze
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long period of extreme dryness
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drought
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where grasslands have become deserts
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desertification
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mineral used to make aluminum
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Bauxite
Term
mineral salt used as fertilizers
Definition
phosphate
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