Chapter 13 Geography Vocab

the intentional destruction of a people

• Celebration

• Genocide

• Gathering

• Refugees

periods when little rain falls and crops are damaged

• Flash Flood

• Genocide

• Droughts

• Rain

- an island in Tanzania; once a major trading center

• Zanzibar

• Egypt

• Congo

• Fiji

- an overland journey to view African wildlife

• Aquarium

• Safari

• Zoo

• Cruise

places on Earth's surface where the crust stretches until it breaks

• Europe

• trench

• continental divide

• rift valley

the practice of building an empire by claiming lands, setting up colonies, and controlling those areas

• Free Land

• Imperialism

• Monarchy

• Patriarchy

- energy produced by heat of the Earth's interior

• Geothermal Energy

• Light

• Heat

• Drought

open grassland areas in South Africa

• Kingdom

• Veld

• Held

• Desert

a series of valleys in East Africa caused by the stretching of the Earth's crust

• Nile Valley

• Ohio Valley

• Great Rift Valley

• Congo Valley

A region in western Sudan where a genocide took place

• Egypt

• Darfur

• Saharra

• Mosley