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Compare and contrast agriculture on the high islands and the low islands of Oceania.

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Answer:These islands have fertile soils that support a wide variety of crop growth, including mangoes, pineapples, sugar cane, and yams. By contrast, the low islands lack fertile soils and adequate rainfall for widespread farming. Instead, most of the islanders living on low islands practice subsistence agriculture.

*High islands" generally refer to islands where the basalt rock from volcanic formation is still above the ocean's surface. *Low islands, by contrast, are islands composed of sedimented material, coral rubble, or uplifted coral reefs.

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These islands have fertile soils that support a wide variety of crop growth, including mangoes, pineapples, sugar cane, and yams. By contrast, the low islands lack fertile soils and adequate rainfall for widespread farming. Instead, most of the islanders living on low islands practice subsistence agriculture.

*High islands" generally refer to islands where the basalt rock from volcanic formation is still above the ocean's surface. *Low islands, by contrast, are islands composed of sedimented material, coral rubble, or uplifted coral reefs.

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