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Vocabulary 1-10
100 words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| absorb | to take in or suck or swallow up |
| adversely | harmfully |
| agriculture | farming, cultivation of the soil |
| algae | any plant or plantlike organism (as a seaweed) that includes forms mostly growing in water |
| aquatic | living or growing in, on, or near the water |
| assimilate | to absorb, to understand |
| biological | having to do with living things |
| buffer | something that serves as a protective barrier |
| chemical | a science that deals with the composition, structure, and properties of substances and with the changes that they go through |
| clog | something that hinders or holds back |
| Noun | a word that is the name of something (as a person, animal, place, thing, quality, idea, or action) |
| Verb | a word that expresses an act, occurrence, or state of being, an action word |
| Adjective | a word that modifies a noun by describing what it is like |
| Adverb | a word used to modify a verb, an adjective, another adverb |
| Pronoun | a word that is used as a substitute for a noun |
| Conjunction | a word or expression that joins together sentences, clauses, phrases, or words |
| Figurative language | Words that are used in ways that aren’t purely literal |
| Personification | Describing something not human by giving it human characteristics |
| Simile | a comparison that isn't literal and uses like or as |
| Metaphor | a non-literal comparison that doesn't use like or as. |
| Data | Information |
| Classify | Putting objects into groups based on their characteristics |
| Experiment | Test of a hypothesis controlling variables |
| Plain | flat expanse of land |
| Rave | To talk wildly |
| continent | one of the 7 large landmasses on the earth |
| channel | a wide strait or waterway between 2 landmasses that lie close to each other; deep part of a river or other waterway |
| cliff | a steep, high wall of rock, earth, or ice |
| desert | a region of vegetation, either cold or hot, that receives ten inches or less of precipitation each year |
| glacier | a large, thick body of slowly moving ice |
| axis | n. straight line around which something rotates |
| fragrant | sweet-smelling |
| teeming | filled to overflowing |
| accomplice | assistant to a crime |
| arc | curved path |
| ebb | to decrease in force or level |
| impulse | sudden act |
| indefinitely | for an unlimited time |
| ponderous | of great weight |
| pry | to pull by using a lever |
| Implore | to beg |
| Primly | stiffly; daintily |
| recede | to move backward; to withdraw |
| rueful | sad |
| venture | bold or risky act |
| anguish | extreme pain or sorrow |
| helter-skelter | without order; messy |
| Immense | very large |
| Melancholy | Depressed |
| Pickle | difficult situation |
| Objective | Something worked toward or striven for; a goal. |
| Rubric | A tool to assess work describing different levels of performance. |
| Evaluation | Examining and carefully judging something |
| Assessment | An activity that shows what you know and can do. |
| Geography | Geography is the study of the earth in all its variety—human and natural—focusing on how locations affect all other aspects of a place. |
| Standard | A degree or level of requirement, excellence, or attainment |
| Strategy | A way of doing something difficult |
| Percent | Out of each hundred, per hundred |
| Grammar | Rules of language and how words and punctuation combine to form sentences. |
| Punctuation | The standard marks and signs, besides letters, in writing and printing |
| mouth (of a river) | a place where a stream or river flows into a larger body of water |
| bay | the part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline, generally smaller than a gulf |
| source (of a river) | a place where a river or stream begins, often in highlands |
| strait | a narrow stretch of water joining 2 larger bodies of water |
| Tributary | a small river or stream that flows into a large river or stream; a branch of the river |
| gulf | part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline, generally larger and more deeply indented than a bay |
| peninsula | a body of land jutting into a lake or ocean, surrounded on 3 sides by water |
| hill | elevated land with sloping sides and a rounded summit; generally smaller than a mountain |
| island | a land area, smaller than a continent, completely surrounded by water |
| isthmus | a narrow stretch of land connecting 2 larger land areas |
| condense | to increase the amount of a substance in a space by removing other substances with which it is mixed or in which it is dissolved |
| consume | to make complete use of : EXHAUST |
| contaminants | to make impure or unfit for use by adding something harmful or unpleasant |
| critical | very important |
| debris | the remains of something broken down or destroyed an accumulation of fragments of rock |
| decompose | to break down through chemical change : ROT |
| degraded | to reduce the complexity of a chemical compound |
| deplete | to reduce in amount by using up |
| deprive | to take something away from |
| derived | to come from a certain source |
| extravagant | excessive, going beyond reasonable bounds |
| tangible | able to be touched or felt |
| leaden | heavy and sad |
| sullen | gloomy, sad, in a bad mood |
| timorous | Scared, reluctant |
| moderation | Not going to extremes. |
| pastor | a minister or priest in charge of a church or parish |
| imams | Muslim religious leaders |
| compare | tell the differences and similiarities |
| contrast | tell the differences |
| Trace | Outline, List in Steps |
| Analyze | Break apart, Study the Pieces |
| Infer | A Good Guess, Read Between the Lines |
| Evaluate | Judge, In Your Own Words |
| Formulate | Put Together, Create |
| Describe | Tell All About |
| Support | Give the Facts, Back Up With Details |
| Explain | Tell How, Put in Your Own Words |
| Summarize | Sum It Up, Give Me the Short Version |
| Predict | Make a Guess, What Will Happen Next |
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