Vocabulary Unit 4 Facing Challenges: Sub-Saharan Africa

1.  a system of legal racial segregation that existed in South Africa between 1948 and 1993, under which the rights of the majority ‘non-white’ inhabitants of the country were restricted

• Apartheid
• Application
• Apache Way
• African Way

universal rights possessed by all people in the world because they are a human being

• Animal Rights
• Black Rights
• White Rights
• Human Rights

physical geographic feature characterized by sharp cliffs caused by erosion, such as the Great Rift Valley

• Environment
  
• Erosion
• Evaporation
• Escarpment

process where fertile land turns into desert, usually caused by overgrazing

• Desalinization
• Deforestation
• Desertification
• Diffusion

systematic killing of a particular ethnic group

• Genetics
• Genocide
• Geology
• Genomax

migrant people who flee their homelands to escape disaster, persecution, or war

• Regae
• Ruffians
• Refugees
• Rescuers

physical process in which soil and rock is moved by wind or water

• Explosion
• Implosion
  
• Exhaustion
• Erosion

is a conflict where different ethnic groups fight each other. It is different from a civil war, where a single nation or ethnic group is fighting among itself.

• African conflict
• Ethnic conflict 
• Indian conflict
• People conflict

a collection of various resources which contribute to producing goods or services

• Factor of production
• Factor of goods
• Factor of services
• Factor of contribution

1.  Less developed - refers to the nations with the lowest indicators of development; generally characterized by high poverty rates, low GDP, low life expectancy rates, low literacy rates and high infant mortality rates

• Never developed
• Newly developed
• More developed
• Less developed