Great Barrier Reef Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
habitat | a particular area where an animal lives eg tree, cave, den, desert, reef |
mollusc | invertibrate animal with soft body, most grow a hard shell for protection eg snails, clams, mussels without shell - octopus |
mammal | a warm-blooded animal with a backbone that feeds its young with milk produced by the mother and has skin usually more or less covered with hair. |
coral | Corals are sea animals that stay in one place throughout their adult lives. Some types produce a skeleton, also called coral, that remains in place after they die. |
The Great Barrier Reef | The largest coral reef in the world. |
Fish | An animal that lives in water and has fins for swimming and gills for breathing. |
Annelid | Worm, segmented worm - live on and or in the sea |
marine | From the sea |
seaweed | A plant growing in the sea; especially : a marine alga (such as a kelp) |
plankton | Countless tiny living things float and drift in the world's oceans and other bodies of water. They include plants, animals, and other kinds of organisms. |
predator | A person or an animal that hunts a smaller weaker person or animal. |
prey | An animal being hunted, caught, and eaten by another animal |
reptile | a vertebrate animal that includes snakes,turtles, and tortoises. They have a dry scaly skin and usually lay soft-shelled eggs on land. |
Sponge | It is a simple animal with many cells, but no mouth, muscles, heart or brain. it cannot move from place to place the way most other animals can. A sponge is an animal that grows in one spot like most plants do. |
jellyfish | Jellyfish are sea animals with a soft, jellylike body and no bones. They have tentacles, or feelers to sting their prey. Related corals and sea anemones. |
world heritage | . World Heritage sites are special places that have been set aside to be protected eg a building, mountain range, rainforest, reef |
global warming | the gradual heating of Earth's surface, oceans |
coral bleaching | Coral reefs are very sensitive to light and temperature. If the water they live in gets too hot, they might not survive. When they turn white. |
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