World Geo Vocab study guide

the belief that bodies of water, animals, trees, and other natural objects have spirits

• animism

• enclave

• famine

• ethnocentrism

South Africa’s government policy of separation of races that was abandoned in the 1980s and 1990s; apartheid means “apartness”

• basin

• dialects

• Apartheid

• genocide

a generally flat region surrounded by higher land such as mountains and plateaus

• basin

• drought

• mosque

• savanna

a regional version of a language

• sahel

• dialects

• sanctions

• nationalism

periods when little rain falls and crops are damaged

• malnutrition

• safari

• sanctions

• Drought

a small territory surrounded by foreign territory

• encalve

• famine

• surroundings

• cave

a steep face at the edge of a plateau or other raised area

• Escarpment

• malaria

• middle passage

• sahel

the belief that one’s own culture or ethnic group is superior

• ethnocentrism

• safari

• savanna

• sanctions

intentional destruction of a people

• genocide

• sahel

• middle passage

• malaria

an extreme shortage of food

• drought

• genocide

• famine

• malaria