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Government
Human Migration
Africas Regions
Vocabulary
Citizen Participation
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In this type of government, people get to vote,
their rights are guaranteed, and ordinary people
hold the power.
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What is a democracy?
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In this type of government, one ruler or a small
group takes control by force. Citizens have no
personal rights or freedoms.
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What is a dictatorship?
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In a democracy, this is who holds the power.
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Who are the people?
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In a monarchy, this is how the king or queen
gains his/her power.
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What is inheriting?
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This type of government is similar to a
democracy. There is a king or queen, but they
hold no true power. Citizens have guaranteed
rights, and the head of state is often called a
prime minister.
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What is a constitutional monarchy?
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Despite its harsh climate, people are pulled to
the Sahara Desert to mine this natural resource.
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What is salt?
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People are drawn to this region of Africa located
along the equator, because of the abundance of
trees, an important natural resource.
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What is the rainforest?
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Despite the seismic activity (earthquakes,
volcanoes) there, people are pulled to the Great
Rift Valley because of this.
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What is fertile soil?
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These are two reasons people decide to live along
the Nile River in Egypt.
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What are silt, transportation, water for
drinking, water for irrigation?
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These are two reasons people move to the city.
These two pull factors lead to urbanization.
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What is are jobs, education, or womens rights?
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This term means very dry. It describes Africas
desert region, which receives very little
precipitation.
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What is a arid?
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Because of this process, the Sahel region is
becoming a desert.
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What is desertification?
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In order to survive in the hot, arid climate of
the Sahara Desert region, people settle around
these places in the desert where underground
water comes to the surface through springs or
wells.
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What are oases?
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Its the type of region represented by this
climograph.
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What is a savanna?
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These are the 4 types of productive resources
(resources needed to start and maintain a
business). Different regions have different
amounts of each.
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What is are entrepreneurship, capital, natural
resources, human resources?
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This term means the growth of city population.
Cairo is experiencing this problem.
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What is urbanization?
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Rather than resorting to military conflict,
countries can use this, which is a way of
resolving conflicts by peacefully discussing
issues in order to avoid violence and leave both
sides satisfied.
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What is diplomacy?
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This occurs because of deforestation,
overgrazing, and poor farming techniques causing
soil loss.
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What is a desertification?
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This process occurs when land is cleared for
farming and forests are lost.
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What is a deforestation?
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This term means using technology to modify living
things. Banana and rice farmers use it in
Africa, since farming is difficult in some parts
of the continent.

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What is a biotechnology?
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This word, meaning apartness, describes the class
structure in South Africa until 1991. During
this time the black citizens were terribly
mistreated and did not have rights equal to the
white minority.
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What is apartheid?
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These are two ways that citizens can participate
in a democracy.
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What is vote, run for office, protest, work for a
political campaign, exercise freedoms guaranteed
in a Bill of Rights, or pay taxes?
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In this type of government, citizens rights are
determined by a king or queen.
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What is a monarchy?
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In this type of government, citizens have no
guaranteed rights. They are ruled in fear by the
person who gained power by force.
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What is a dictatorship?
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These are at least two ways that life changed for
citizens in South Africa when apartheid ended.
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What are black citizens could vote, run for
political office, go to school with white
students, live work in the city?