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14 Cards in this Set
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transition zone - also called regional boundary or boundary lines, separate nations, form social distinctions and divide political areas |
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delta - is a landform that forms from deposition of sediment carried by a river as the flow leaves its mouth and enters slower-moving or standing water |
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sahel - is a semiarid band of land stretching across northern Africa at roughly the 13th parallel, dividing the Sahara desert from Africa's tropical forests |
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clan - is a group of people |
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oral tradition - stories passed down through mouth |
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subsistence farming - when you don't have enough to share, only enough for your family |
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desertification - is a type of land degradation in which relatively dry area of land becomes increasingly arid, typically losing its bodies of water as well as vegetation and wildlife |
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desertification - is a linear-shaped lowland between several highlands or mountain ranges created by the action of a geologic rift or fault |
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conflict diamonds - an uncut diamond mined in an area of armed conflict and traded illicitly to finance the fighting |
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infrastructure - the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization |
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griots - a member of a hereditary caste among the peoples of western Africawhose function is to keep an oral history of the tribe or village and toentertain with stories, poems, songs and dances |
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under-story - a layer of vegetation beneath the main canopy of a forest. |
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cash crops - a crop you can sell to make a profit off of it |
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indigenous - originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native
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