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Africa
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Geography
7th Grade
03/14/2010

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Erg
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Great "seas" of sand dunes in the Sahara
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Reg
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Broad, windswept gravel plains in the Sahara
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Depression
Definition
Low areas
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Silt
Definition
Finely ground soil
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Zonal
Definition
The climates of West Africa, which stretch east to west in bands
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Sahel
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A dry grasslands region with a steppe climate south of the Sahara
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Harmattan
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A dry, dusty wind that blows south from the Sahara during winter
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Tsetse fly
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A fly in Africa south of the Sahara that spreads sleeping sickness, a deadly disease
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Bauxite
Definition
The most important aluminum ore
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Pharaoh
Definition
Ancient Egyptian kings
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Hieroglyphs
Definition
Pictures and symbols used to record information in ancient Egypt
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Bedouins
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Nomadic herders in the deserts of Egypt and Southwest Asia
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Archaeology
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The study of the remains and ruins of past cultures
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Oral history
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Spoken information passed down from person to person through generations
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Animism
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A religious belief that bodies of water, animals, trees, and other natural objects have spirits
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Rifts
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Long, deep valleys with mountains or plateaus on either side
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Swahili
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A Bantu language that is widely spoken in areas of Africa
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Droughts
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Periods when little rain falls and crops are damaged
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Basin
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Regions surrounded by mountains or other higher land
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Canopy
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The uppermost layer of a forest’s trees where limbs spread out and block out sunlight
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Copper Belt
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A major copper-mining region of central Africa
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Periodic market
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Open-air trading markets in central Africa
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Ivory
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A cream-colored material that comes from elephant tusks and is used in making fine jewelry and handicrafts
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Dialect
Definition
A variation of a language
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Enclaves
Definition
Countries surrounded or almost surrounded by another country
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The veld
Definition
Open grasslands areas of South Africa
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Pan
Definition
Low, flat, desert areas of southern Africa into which ancient streams drained
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Boer
Definition
Afrikaner frontier farmers, white descendants of South Africa’s original European colonists
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Apartheid
Definition
The South African government policy of separation of races, which began to disappear in the 1980s
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Township
Definition
Special areas of crowded clusters of tiny homes for black South Africans living outside cities
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Sanctions
Definition
An economic or political penalty, such as an embargo, used by one or more countries to force another country to cease an illegal or immoral act
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