Week 1
Behaviors or physical features that help living things survive in their environments
Adaptations
Vocab word that means "enough"
sufficient
To live through something life-threatening or to remain alive
The opposite of offense
Defense
Classified or classify
More than one person, place, thing or animal
Plural Noun
Is informational text fiction or nonfiction
Nonfiction
Fast-moving, dangerous water
Rapids
Greek root that means "life"
Bio
Name one of the Echidna's adaptations (either physical or behavioral).
Snout & Tongue, Electroreception, Powerful Claws, Spines, Burrowing, Torpor/Hibernation,
Very easily broken
Brittle
Text structure that means because something happens, something else happens
Cause & Effect
Give 2 examples of irregular plural nouns
ex: geese, women, lives, fungi, mice, moose
Genre that includes structure (Stanzas), rhythm, rhyme, and figurative language
Poetry
Latin Root that means "pull" or "drag"
Tract
Give an example of a simile comparing a a storm to something
The storm was as ______ as a ______.
The storm was like a ______.
Warm & Cold are ___________.
Antonyms
Name one of the other rivers that feed into the Mississippi
Missouri, Ohio, Arkansas, Red Rivers
Vocab word that means "tubes or passageways carrying fluid around an organism"
Vessels
Purposes (to ___ & to ____) of Informational Text
To inform or to explain
The shape or outline of something
Contour
What is one diphthong sounds and how is it spelled (We learned 2 diphthong sounds and they both have two spellings)
"Ou" sound spelled ou or ow
"Oi" sound spelled oi or oy
List the 5 types of Fiction
Realistic, Historical, Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Mystery
Lion is to herbivore as rhino is to ______.
Carnivore
Platypuses & Echidnas both live in Australia. Both animals have a country they also live in that are different. Give me both countries and which animal lives there.
Echidna - New Guinea
Platypus - Tasmania