| A | B |
|---|
| archipelago | group of islands |
| command economy | economic stystem in which the government decides how resources are used |
| common wealth | self-governing territory |
| communist state | country whose government has strong control over the economy and the society as a whole |
| diefolt | failure to make debt payments that are due to a lender |
| escarpment | steep cliff at the edge of a plateau with a lowland area below |
| estuary | an area where river currents and ocean tide meet |
| gasohol | human-made fuel produced from mixing gas and alchohol with sugar cane |
| national debt | money owed by the government |
| rain forest | dense stand of trees and other growth that ceives hgh amounts of precipitation each year |
