Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
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What is someone who studies a region's plants and their practical uses through knowledge of the people and culture?
Ethnobotanist
100
What is an ethnic group?
A community made up of people who share common cultural background or descent
100
What is microcredit?
The lending of small amounts of money at low interest
100
What does plain or obvious mean?
Evident
100
What is segregation?
The action of setting someone or something apart from other people being set apart
200
What is a plant that has similar properties as pharmaceutical drugs?
Medicinal plant
200
What is a raw material or agricultural product that can be bought and sold?
Commodity
200
What is a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community?
Epidemic
200
What is a refugee?
A person who is being forced out of their country to escape war or a natural disaster
200
What is a continental union consisting of all 55 countries in Africa?
The African Union
300
What is the process of adapting something to modern needs or habits?
Modernization
300
What is a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government?
A coup
300
What is a pandemic?
The widespread of a disease over a whole country or the world
300
What is a clan?
A group of close-knit and interrelated families
300
Who were the Lost Boys of Sudan?
Over 20,000 boys of the Nuer and Dinka ethnic groups who were displaced during the Second Sudanese Civil War
400
What is a griot?
A West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, or poet
400
What is famine?
A widespread shortage of food
400
What does infectious mean?
Likely to be transmitted to people through the environment
400
What is a failed state?
A state whose political or economic system has become so weak that the government is no longer in control
400
Who was Nelson Mandela?
President of South Africa from 1994-1999
500
What is the process of passing down stories and knowledge orally from one generation to the next?
Oral tradition
500
What is the gradual destruction of land by wind or water?
Erosion
500
What does concentrated mean?
Wholly directed to one thing
500
Who is Youssou N'Dour?
A famous Senegalese singer, songwriter, businessman, and politician
500
What is Kenya's capital city?
Nairobi
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