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| Electicity that is generated from the power of movingg water. |
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| A system that allows for the year round watering of crops. |
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| The area drained by a river and its tributaries. |
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| The movement of water from the surface of the Earth to the atmosphere and back. |
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| The process by which land becomes more and more drier util it turns into a desert. |
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| An unusaully long period in which little or no rain falls. |
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| Land that is not well suited for growing crops. |
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| Groups of herders who move with their animals from place to place searching for pasture and water. |
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| Gender Based Division of labor |
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| The division of work into two categries based on sex/gender. The result is that men and women end up doing different types of work. |
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| The part of the economy in which goods and services are exchanged outside of government control. People who work in the informal economies often sell goods on the street or street market. |
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| A very small business with few or no employees. |
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| A person who starts and runs a very small business. |
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| A system in which one country rules another area as a colony. The ruling country controls trade with it's colony for it's own benefit. |
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| An area that is set apart from other places by the way of life of the people who live there. |
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| A variety of people from different ethnic groups. |
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| A group of people who share a common language. |
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| The former South African policy of separating people according to race. It gave most of the political power to whites. |
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| The separation of one group of people from another, such as by race. Segregation can involve laws or customs that require different grops to use different facilities and live in separate areas. |
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| Made up of people from several ethnic groups. |
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| The way people or things are spread out over an area or space. Also the way resources, power, or goods are divided among people or groups |
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