Basin
A bowl for washing typically attached to a wall and having faucets
connected to a water supply
Aquifer
An underground layer of rock that stores water
Canopy
The area encompassing the tops of the trees in a rain forest about
150 feet above ground
Escarpment
A steep slope with a nearly flat plautea on top
Oasis
a place where water from an aquifer has reached the surface it
supports vegetation and wildlife
Desertification
An expansion of dry conditions to moist areas that are next to deserts
Berlin conference
A conference of 14 European nations held in 1884-1885 in Berlin
Germany to establish rules for political control of Africa
Pandemic
A disease effecting a large population over a wide geographic area
Rai
A kind of popular Algerian music development in the 1920 by poor
urban children that is facto aced with danceable rhythms was sometimes
used as a form of rebellion to expose political unhappiness
Ashanti
People who live in what is now Ghana in the west African and who are
known for their artful weaving of colorful asasia or kente cloth
Commodity
An agricultural or mining product that can be sold
Cash crops
A crop sold for direct sale and not for use in a region such as
coffee tea and sugar in Africa
Masai
Member of a pastoral people living in Tasmania and Kenya
Stateless society
A society that is not governed by a state or especially in common
American English has no government
Apartheid
An agriculture or mining product that can be sold a policy of
complete separation of the races instituted by the white minority
government of South Africa in 1948
Commodity
An agriculture or mining produce that can be sold
AidsAIDS
A disease where several loss of body's cellular immunity greatly
lowering the restance to infection and malignancy
Malaria
An infectious disease of the red blood cells carried by mosquitoes
that is characterized by child fever and sweating
Diversity
To increase the vireiety of products in a country economy to promote
manufacturing and other industries in order to achieve growth to stability
Cholera
Treatable infection disease that can be fatal and is caused by a lack
of adequate sanitation and clean water supply
Tuberculosis
A respiratory infection spread by humans contact witch often
accompanies AIDS
Compass Rose
A symbol on a map which shows you orientation (the directions of N,
S, E, W).
Equator
An imaginary line found on a map or globe which runs around the
center of the earth like a belt It divides the earth into northern and
southern halves, or hemispheres.
Geography
The study of the earth and the people who live on it.
Globe
A sphere or ball that shows a map of the earth�s features.
Hemisphere
Half of a sphere or ball.
Landform
Features of the earth found on land like continents, mountains,
islands, peninsulas, etc.
Latitude
How far north or south a place is from the equator.
Longitude
How far east or west a place is from the prime meridian.
Map
A flat picture of the features of the earth.
Map Key
A map feature which shows you the meaning of all the symbols and
colors used on the map.
Map Scale
A feature on a map which allows you to find out how far apart or how
close together places are in the real world.
Physical Feature.
Any feature found on earth, either on land or in water; examples:
seas, oceans, deserts, hills, plains, etc.
Prime Meridian
An imaginary line found on a map or on a globe which runs from the
north to the south pole It divides the earth into eastern and western
halves or hemispheres.