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- commonwealth
- territory that governs itself, like Puerto Rico
- marsh
- low, wet land where cattails, tall grasses grow
- reef
- ridge of rocks, sand, or coral near the surface of the sea
- coral
- stony material formed by the skeletons of tiny sea animals
- pulp
- soft mixture of ground up wood chips and chemicals used to make paper
- Sun Belt
- wide area of U.S. that has mild climate all year
- territory
- place owned and governed by a country
- tropics
- band of warm climate that circles the Earth near the equator
- food processing
- cooking, canning, drying or freezing of food for market
- mainland
- continent nearest to an island
- effect
- what happens because of an earlier action
- refinery
- factory that turns crude oil into gasoline and other fuels
- swamp
- low, wet land where trees and bushes grow
- generation
- average time between birth of parents and their children
- renewable resource
- resource that can be used again or made again by people or nature
- legend
- story handed down from the past
- cause
- something that makes something happen
- bayou
- slow-moving body of water
- tourist
- someone who travels to a place for pleasure
- strait
- narrow channel that connects two larger bodies of water
- barrier islands
- low, narrow islands near a coast
- nonrenewable resource
- resource that cannot be made again by people or nature
- hurricane
- huge storm with heavy winds and rains
- textiles
- cloth used to make clothing, towels, and sheets
- tourism
- the selling of goods and services to tourists
- plantations
- huge farms
- growing season
- time when weather is warm enough for plants to grow
- crude oil
- petroleum pumped form the ground
- inlet
- narrow strip of water leading in to the land from a larger body of water
- petroleum
- another name for oil
- petrochemical
- chemical made from oil, and used to make tires, plastics,etc.