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Exploding Ants
Vocabulary Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| critical | important to the outcome of a situation |
| enables | gives ability, power, or means to; makes able |
| mucus | slimy substance produced in the nose and throat to moisten and protect them |
| scarce | hard to get; rare |
| specialize | to develop in a special way |
| sterile | free from germs |
| aborigines | earliest known inhabitants of Australia |
| nauseating | sickening; causing nausea |
| predator | animal or person that lives by killing and eating other animals |
| African black mambas | poisonous snakes from Africa that are related to cobras |
| constrictors | snakes that kill prey by crushing it in their coils |
| reptiles | cold-blooded animals with backbones and lungs, usually covered with horny plates or scales |