North Africa, region of Africa comprising the modern countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. North AfricaEncyclopÃ¦dia Britannica, Inc.The geographic entity North Africa has no single accepted definition.
A Stressor is anything (physical or psychological) that produces stress (negative or positive) is considered a stressor.
Stress is defined as an organism's total response to environmental demands or pressures. When stress was first studied in the 1950s, the term was used to denote both the causes and the experienced effects of these pressures. More recently, however, the word stressor has been used for the stimulus that provokes a stress response.