Chapter 26 Geography Vocabulary
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- Landlocked
- Almost or entirely surrounded by land; cut off from seas
- International Monetary Fund
- Provides development money to countries in the united nations
- World Bank
- Agency of the united nations that provides loans to countries developments
- Ancestor Worship
- The belief in honoring and respecting ancestors will cause them to live in a world after death
- Mercenary
- Professional soldier hired by a foreign country
- Animism
- Belief in all things living are gods
- Shifting Agriculture
- The Practice of farming a site until the soil is exhausted, then moving on to a new site
- Deforestation
- The process of stripping the land of its trees
- Coup
- The overthrowing of the ruler or government
- Refugee
- A person who flees his or her country to escape danger
- Structural Adjustment Program
- Program to reform the structure of an economy
- Watershed
- Dividing Ridge between two basins
- Barter
- An exchange of goods without paying money
- Desertification
- The transformation of arable land into desert either naturally or through human intervention
- Forage
- Food for grazing animals
- Inland Delta
- An area of lakes, creeks, and swamps away from the oceans