Sub-Saharan Africa

adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different

• lingua franca
• tributary
• endemic
• pirogue

electricity generated from moving water

• savanna
• hydroelectric power
• cataracts
• kopjes

illegally hunting or catching game or fish on land that is no one's own

• biome
• hydroelectric power
• poaching
• savanna

large naturally occurring community of plant and animal life occupying a major habitat

• hydroelectric power
• savanna
• cataracts
• biome

large waterfalls created when rivers flow downstream with lower elevation

• cataracts
• kopjes
• Serengeti
• conflict diamonds

native and restricted to a certain place

• pirogue
• endemic
• apartheid
• estuary

occurs when natural or human-induced processes decrease ability of land to support crops, livestock, or wild species

• slash and burn farming
• dhow
• land degradation
• lingua franca

originate from areas controlled by forces who use the profits to oppose the government

• land degradation
• slash and burn farming
• dhow
• conflict diamonds

people clear fields by cutting and burning trees and grasses, the ashes of which serve to fertilize the soil

• slash and burn farming
• dhow
• lingua franca
• tributary

policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race

• estuary
• apartheid
• poaching
• biome