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4 - Adelina's Whales
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| altitude | height above sea level |
| ascent | act of going up |
| swans | large water birds with long, slender, curving necks |
| zone | any of the five great regions of Earth's surface, bounded by imaginary lines parallel to the equator |
| biologist | scientist who studies living things, including their origins, structures, activities, and distribution |
| bluff | a high steep slope or cliff |
| lagoon | a pond or small lake, especially one connected with a larger body of water |
| massive | big and heavy; bulky |
| rumbling | making a deep, heavy, continuous sound |
| tropical | of or like the regions north or south of the equator where the sun can shine directly overhead |
| encounter | an unexpected meeting |
| exhaling | breathing out |