GEO Spring ACP Vocab

mountain range that isolates India from China

when American companies send jobs to Asia to save money

the inabillity to read

a period of economic shrinking

When a desert grows due to natural or human causes

chain of volcanic activity around the pacific ocean

an uncontrolable or out-of-control disease

mosquito borne illness found in central Africa

river in Iraq home to the earliest civilizations

A region controlled by a stronger nation

wind systems that give India 2 seasons

The worlds largest desert

rich nutrients deposited by yearly floods along the Nile River

an area of the desert where water is avaliable

system of racial segregation in South Africa

The main religion of North Africa and the Middle East

turning salt water into fresh water

a sustained period of low rainfall

leader of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa

economy where people work to survive not for wages

asian nation divided into communist North and democratic South