| A | B |
|---|
| African Deserts | Sahara and Kalahari |
| Qanat | long tunnels carrying water from a spring @ the foot of a mountain to the plains |
| Tsetse fly | gives the sleeping sickness, it is found near lake Victoria |
| apartheid | South African government, policy of seperation of races |
| Cairo | capital of Egypt |
| Zaire | now the Democratic Republic of the congo |
| copra | dried meat of coconut |
| Mecca | holy city of islam in saudi arabia |
| Caucasus | west cost of Russia |
| Ural | mountains in Russia |
| Himalayas | mountains in Nepal and India |
| taiga | a huge forest region in the nothern hemisphere |
| Siberia | vast region of Russia extending from the Ural mountains to the Pacific Ocean |
| Zionism | a religion |
| Sumatra | largest island in Indonesia |
| monsoon | a wind system in which winds in comepletely reverse direction and brings a wet and dry seasons wet=summer & floods dry=winter & droughts |
| cyclone | similar to a hurricane or tornado |
| typhoon | a tropical storm that brings violent winds, heavy rains, and high seas |
| loess | dust sized soil particless deposited by wind |
| tariff | a tax |
| embargo | a leagal restriction against the movement freight |
| stan countries | Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Afgahnistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan |
| Sahel | a region of bush savannas and grasslands in Africa |
| paddies | a watered covered field usually used for rice cultivation |
| aquaculture | the fishing of fish or shellfish in an enclosed pond |
| subsistence farming | farming on a small farm and their is only enough food for your own family |
