Figurative Language
Living Colors
New Land
Unsinkable Ship
Vocabulary
100
The spot on its tail looks like an eye
What is how a butterfly fish confuses predators?
100
To protect themselves from predators and to sneak up on prey
Why do animals change colors?
100
People, Coral Reefs, and Lava
What makes an island?
100
It hit a giant iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean?
how did the Titanic sink?
100
Land completely surrounded by water
What is an island?
200
She is as long as four city blocks and wider than a four lane highway
What is the size of the Titanic?
200
To communicate, to express feelings, and to warn others
What other ways do animals use camoflage?
200
It broke off from Africa
What continent is Madagascar on?
200
It sank in 1912 which was 100 years ago
How many years ago did the Titanic sink?
200
A natural feature of land like an island or mountain
What is a landform?
300
As smooth as glass
What is the water around the Titanic?
300
The back is dark like the water and the belly is light like sunlight
How does a manta ray blend in from above and below water?
300
The largest island
What is Greenland?
300
705 people
How many of the 2200 passengers and crew survived?
300
A plant or animal's surroundings
What is environment?
400
The cloudless night blazes with stars
What is the sky on the night the Titanic sunk?
400
Bans across its body can ripple to change
How does the cuttlefish change color?
400
Tons of sand and rocks are dug out and dumped on the shallow ocean floor
How do people construct man - made islands?
400
Robot submarines
How were the remains of the Titanic discovered?
400
Protective coloring on an animal's back and stomach
What is countershading?
500
They form a dizzying black and white puzzle
What is how the stripes of a zebra herd look to a predator?
500
It makes it hard for predators to single out a specific animal. It looks like one big herd.
Why do zebras have black and white stripes?
500
Birds carry them ,they ride ocean tides, and the wind blows them
How plants get to islands
500
The hull could not take the pressure of the incoming water after it hit the iceberg.
How did the Titanic split in half?
500
Colors and marks that help an animal blend into its surroundings
What is camouflage?
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