| A | B |
|---|
| bauxite | mineral used to make aluminum |
| cassava | plants with roots that can be ground into flour to make bread or eaten in other ways |
| phosphate | mineral salt used in fertilizer |
| savanna | broad grassland in the tropics with few trees |
| cacao | tropical tree whose seeds are used to make cocoa and chocolate |
| harmattan | dry, dusty wind that blows south from the Sahara |
| import | to buy goods from another country |
| drought | a long dry period without water |
| overgraze | when animals strip the land so bare that plants cannot grow back |
| compound | a group of houses surrounded by a wall |
