| A | B |
|---|
| Hurricane | a powerful storm with winds over 75 miles per hour and heavy rain |
| silt | fine soil at the botom of rivers and lakes |
| delta | a triangular area of land formed when silt collects near the mouth of a river |
| bay | part of the sea that pushes into land |
| bayou | a stream that moves slowly through a swamp |
| mission | a place for teaching religion |
| descendant | a person's child, grandchild, or great-grandchild, and so forth |
| plantation | a large farm on which crops are grown by workers who often lived there |
| secede | to stop being part of a country |
| civil war | a war between two groups in the same country |
| hydroelectric power | electricity produced by moving water |
| textile | cloth |
| mining | the process of removing ore or minerals from the ground |
