Vocab 1
Long period of no rain.
What is a Drought?
Using children to work at a young age or being sold into modern day slavery.
What is Child Labor?
A prize given to a person who promotes peace in the world.
What is the Nobel Peace Prize?
The 2nd largest continent in the world.
What is Africa?
The first Chinese dynasty.
When people are separated because of their race or ethnic group.
What is Segregation?
Farming where the farmer only grows enough to survive with very little extra to sell.
What is Subsistence Farming?
Material that can’t be replaced easily such as oil, diamonds, coal.
What is a Non-Renewable Resource?
When a person believes their race is better than others.
A group of Islands.
What is an Archapelago?
Material that can easily be replaced over time such as trees (if planted), corn, chickens, rice.
What is a Renewable Resource?
When a country takes over another country for their resources, land and to spread cultural ideas such as religion.
What is Imperialism?
An agricultural practice that suggests rearranging farmlands or turning hills into farmlands by constructing specific ridged platforms.
Materials supplied by nature.
What is a Natural Resource?
Humans being bought and sold as labor which is also known as chattel.
What is Human Trafficking.
When a country owns another territory.
What is Colonialism?
First black president of South Africa who helped to end apartheid.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
Keeping whites and people of color separated in South Africa.
What is Apartheid?
The country where the Nile River begins.
What is Egypt?
A group of people in Africa (called the Bantu) moved around Africa spreading their culture.
What is the Bantu Migration?
White Leader of South Africa who worked with Nelson Mandela to end apartheid in South Africa.
Who is F.W. de Klerk?
A semiarid (dry) region south of the Sahara desert and north of the humid savannas.
What is the Sahel?
The desert spreading and causing the land to not be productive.
What is Desertification?
A fertile spot in a desert where water is found.
What is an Oasis?