| A | B |
|---|
| commercial farming | raising crops and livestock for sale on the world market |
| subsistence | farming that provides only enough food for a family or a village |
| paddy | a level field that is flooded to grow rice, especially in Asia |
| geyser | a hot spring that can shoot scalding water over 100 feet into the air |
| fiord | a large plateau |
| marsupial | an animal that carries its young in a body pouch |
| tectonic plates | the curst of the Earth is made up of these. |
| atoll | a small coral island in the shape of a ring |
| coral | a rock-like material made up of the skeletons of tiny sea creatures |
| high island | an island formed from the mountainous to of an ancient volcano |
| low island | an island formed from coral reefs or atolls |
| rain forest | a dense forest rich in biodiversity, found typically in tropical areas with consistently heavy rainfall |
