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16 Cards in this Set
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Transition Zone |
an area in which the properties of the land undergo a radical change |
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Delta |
a often triangular-shaped section of land formed as the waters of a river slow down and split into many channels |
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Sahel |
steppe region extending from Senegal to Somalia that receives little rainfall |
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Clan |
a large group of people descended from the same ancestor |
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Oral Tradition |
the practice of passing down stories from generation to generation by word of mouth |
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Subsistence Farming |
farming that provides the basic needs of a family with little surplus |
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Desertification |
the destruction of land in arid and semi-arid climate |
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Rift Valley |
a crack in Earth's surface created by the shifting of tectonic plates |
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Indigenous |
native to a people |
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Poaching |
illegal hunting |
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Reservoir |
a natural or artificial lake used as a source of water |
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Conflict Diamonds |
diamonds that are mined in war-torn areas and are used to finance wars |
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Infrastructure |
the set of systems that affect how well a place or organization operates, such as telephone or transportation systems |
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Griots |
traditional oral historians, storytellers,singers and historians of West Africa |
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Understory |
a lower layer of the rain forest |
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Cash Crop |
a farm crop grown to be sold or traded rather then used by the farm family |
