Vocabulary
Text Features
Synonyms:
Examples
Root Meanings
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A person who studies the possibility of life beyond Earth.

Astrobiologist 

100

Heading

Help the reader identify the main idea for that section of text

100

Synonym

a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language,

100

Stem - Chron

Meaning - Time

Example - Chronological, Chronicle, Synchronize 

100

Vehicles used to explore a planet's surface

Rovers

200

The smallest living things

Microbes 

200

Sidebar

To add more information related to the topic

200

Example - Happy

Synonym - glad, joyful, cheerful

200

Stem - Dec

Meaning - Ten

Example - decimal, decade, decagon 

200

Stem - photo

Meaning - light

Example - photography, photograph, photographer

300

A group of animals living in one place

Colony

300

Picture/Illustration

Lets you see what you are reading about 

300

Example - Afraid

Synonym - scared, frightened

300

Stem - Trac

Meaning - Pull

Example - tractor, contract, distract

300

Example - present

Synonym - gift, reward, award

400

Devices that detect changes in light, moisture, or other physical conditions. 

Sensors

400

Maps

Help a reader locate a place in the world that is related to text

400

Example - look

Synonym - see, glance, stare

400

Stem - uni

Meaning - one

Example - unicorn, unique, unit

400

To add more information related to the topic

Sidebar

500

Dangerous energy rays that cannot be seen

Radiation

500

Caption

describes what is being shown in a photograph, map, or illustration 

500

Example - funny

Synonym - silly, playful, crazy

500

Stem - therm

Meaning - heat

Example - thermometer, thermos, thermostat 

500

Who is the best daughter in the entire Earth - and Beyond

Sophia Alvarado

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