| A | B |
| Region | a large area whose parts have something in common |
| livestock | beef cattle, dairy cattle, sheep, goats, hogs, chickens and turkeys |
| landmark | characterized by an interesting shape |
| mohair | the hair of angora goats |
| helium | one of the natural gasses found in an area. makes things float |
| retail | merchants sell to the public |
| wholesale | merchants sell to other businesses |
| basin | low, bowl shaped landforms located between mountains |
| desert | a dry area that receives fewer than 10 inches of rain per year |
| time zone | an area in which all the clocks are set to the same time |
| border | a boundry line, that a place shares with another place |
| inland | away from the coast |
| bayou | has bays and slow moving streams |
| lignite | a kind of soft coal |
| port | a place where ships can dock to load or unload cargo |
| trading post | small frontier store |
| barrier island | narrow islands between the ocean and the main land |
| mainland | the main part of a continent |