Vocabulary: Southern Africa
1. Rift Valley- a large elongated depression with steep walls formed by the downward displacement of a block of the earth's surface between nearly parallel faults or fault systems
2. Fault- planar fractures or discontinuity in a volume of rock
3. Escarpment- a long, steep slope, especially one at the edge of a plateau or separating areas of land at different heights
4. Cataract- a large waterfall
5. Desertification- the process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture.
6. Delta- a landform that forms at the mouth of a river, where the river flows into an ocean, sea, estuary, lake, or reservoir
7. Nuclear family- a couple and their dependent children, regarded as a basic social unit.
8. Oral Tradition- the transmission of cultural material through vocal utterance
9. Domestication- is the process whereby a population of living organisms is changed at the genetic level
10. Patriarchal- characteristic of a system of society or government controlled by men.
2. Fault- planar fractures or discontinuity in a volume of rock
3. Escarpment- a long, steep slope, especially one at the edge of a plateau or separating areas of land at different heights
4. Cataract- a large waterfall
5. Desertification- the process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture.
6. Delta- a landform that forms at the mouth of a river, where the river flows into an ocean, sea, estuary, lake, or reservoir
7. Nuclear family- a couple and their dependent children, regarded as a basic social unit.
8. Oral Tradition- the transmission of cultural material through vocal utterance
9. Domestication- is the process whereby a population of living organisms is changed at the genetic level
10. Patriarchal- characteristic of a system of society or government controlled by men.