In the Footsteps of Dr. Livingstone
Glossary
AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, a disease which attacks an individual's
T-cells, and leaves him or her more susceptible to other opportunistic viruses
APARTHEID: a rigid policy of separation of races
COLONIALISM: the policy of a nation seeking to extend its authority over
other territories
CULTURE: the sum total of ways of living by human beings transmitted from
one
generation to another
DEFORESTATION: destruction of trees which results in destruction of land
DEMOGRAPHY: the study of social statistics and populations
DESOLATE: uninhabited, isolated as a place
EBOLA: an unknown virus, originating in African jungle
ECOSYSTEM: an ecological community with interacting biotic, or living, factors
and
abiotic, or non-living, factors
EXPEDITION: a journey or trip
EXTINCTION: the state of a species which can no longer be found
FAMINE: a drastic and wide-reaching shortage of food; severe hunger and
starvation
FORENSIC: pertaining to, or used in, courts of law or public discussion
and debate
GRASSLANDS: an area in which the natural vegetation consists mainly of perennial
grasses
HERBIVORES: animals which eat plants only
ILLITERACY: the inability to read or write
IMMUNOLOGY: the branch of medicine dealing with immunity from disease and
the production of such immunity
IMPRINTING: to fix firmly on the mind
MALNUTRITION: poor nutrition because of an insufficient or unbalanced diet
OVERPOPULATION: the condition resulting when resources cannot support the
number of people living in a specific area; not necessarily density of people
PEDIATRICIAN: a doctor who works primarily with children
POACHING: illegal hunting of animals
SLAVERY: ownership of a person by another person or others
VIROLOGY: the branch of medicine dealing with viruses
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