Vocabulary
CERC
Miracle Fish
Evidence
Story Elements
100

Name the vocabulary that mean a Data/Facts/text references that support a claim.

What is a evidence.

100

Name the first C in CERC.

What is the claim.
100

Name the smaller fish.

Who are the Cichidaes?

100

Name the which that can grow to be 2-4 inches long.

What is the Cichilds.

100

Name a main character in the Miracle Fish who had to help his dad fish after the introduction of the Nile Fish.

Who is James.

200

Name the vocabulary that means an explanation, telling how the evidence supports a claim statement.

What is reasoning.

200

Name the "E" in CERC.

What is evidence.

200

Name the larger fish?

Who is the Nile Perch.

200

Name the fish that can grow as large as 240 Kilograms.

What is the Nile Perch.

200

Who is the person who is happy with the inductions of the Miracle Fish because it made the wealthy?

British Government

300

Name the vocabulary that is a place where living things interact with each other and the environment around them.

What is an ecosystem.

300

Name the second "C" in CERC

What is conclusion.

300

Name how many species were destroyed by the induction of the Nile Perch.

What is as many as 200 species.

300

Name the amount of increase from 1960 to 1989 in the fish population of Lake Victoria.

What is 100,000  to 500,000 metric tons.

300

Name the character who is the person who likes to know all the positive and negative things that can happen to an ecosystem before changing it.

The ecologist

400

Name the statement that answers a question. 

What is a claim.

400

Name the "R"  in the CERC .

What is reasoning.

400

Name the problem in the 1950's that caused the British Government to look for a solution?

What is the lake was being overfished.
400

Name the amount that the algae has increased in the Lake since the induction of the Nile Perch.

What is "5-fold"

400

Name the character that was glad he had a job,  but who missed his boat and net.  

James' Dad

500

Name the scientist that studies the relationship between the environment and living things.  

Who is the ecologist?  

500

Name the method CERC response has replace in science.

What is the Scientific Method.

500

Name the amount of people that live and relied on Lake Victoria for food/economy.

How many are 30 million.

500

Name the number of fisherman in 1960 and how many there were in 1993.  

What is 16,000 and 82,300.

500

Name the setting of the story?  (Name all three areas that are included) 

Where is Uganda,  Kenya, and Tanzania.

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