22-23 Africa Vocabulary Study Guide

Savanna

• An area between two geographic regions that has characteristics of both.

• Peas of beans.

• A traditional African storyteller.

• Grassland, as in the south of Sub-Saharan Africa.

• The common language among several groups of people.

Apartheid

• A period in which humans began to grow crops instead of gathering plants.

• The common language among several groups of people.

• An area between two geographic regions that has characteristics of both.

• A scientist who studies the relationship between cultures and plants.

• The legal separation of the races; a system that denied black South Africans their rights.

A _________ is a place that receives very little rain and has very little vegetation.

• Desert

• Rainforest

• Tropics

• Equator

A ________ has tall trees, a warm climate and lots of rain.

• Desert

• Rainforest

• Tropics

• Equator

The ______ is an imaginary circle around earth.

• Continent

• Country

• Tropics

• Equator

_________ is something found in nature that can be used by people.

• Temperate

• Agriculture

• Natural Resources

• Indigenous

_______________ is a word that describes the first people who lived in a place.

• Indigenous

• Traditional

• Ancestor

• Muslim

_____________ is words and expressions used and understood by a large group of people.

• Desert

• Ancestor

• Language

• Traditional

A system of European settlement, invasion, and domination of a territory and people.

• colonization

• subjugation

• annihilation

the number of years a person can expect to live

• life expectancy

• death expectancy

• life insurance