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natural world vocab
Natural World Vocabulary
| word | definition |
|---|---|
| fertile | : producing a large amount of something |
| flood | a large amount of water covering an area of land that is usually dry |
| grain | he seeds of plants (such as wheat, corn, and rice) that are used for food |
| hunting | the activity or sport of chasing and killing wild animals |
| jungle | a tropical forest where plants and trees grow very thickly |
| nature | the physical world and everything in it (such as plants, animals, mountains, oceans, stars, etc.) that is not made by people |
| peel | the skin of a fruit |
| shadow | a dark shape that appears on a surface when someone or something moves between the surface and a source of light |
| shine | to give off light he brightness that results when light is reflected from a surface |
| steel | a strong, hard metal made of iron and carbon |
| tides | he regular upward and downward movement of the level of the ocean that is caused by the pull of the Sun and the Moon on the Earth |
| Bone | any one of the hard pieces that form the frame (called a skeleton) inside a person's or animal's body |
| catastrophe | a terrible disaster |
| decay | to be slowly destroyed by natural processes : to be slowly broken down by the natural processes that destroy a dead plant or body [no obj] |