Unit 1 Vocab
the art or practice of taking and processing photographs
What is photography?
the action of traveling over snow on two long boards, especially as a sport or recreation.
What is skiing?
a physical or mental condition that limits a person's movements, senses, or activities.
What is a disability?
a dry, barren area of land, especially one covered with sand, that is characteristically desolate, waterless, and without vegetation.
What is a desert?
a very large marine mammal with a streamlined hairless body, a horizontal tail fin, and a blowhole on top of the head for breathing.
What is a whale?
the sport or pastime of riding a wave toward the shore while standing or lying on a board.
What is surfing?
the sport or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows, especially at a target.
What is archery?
make a similar or identical version of; reproduce.
What is copying?
a deep gorge, typically one with a river flowing through it.
What is a canyon?
a free-swimming marine coelenterate with a gelatinous bell- or saucer-shaped body that is typically transparent and has stinging tentacles around the edge.
What is a jellyfish?
Verb: present (a form of entertainment) to an audience.
What is perform?
a bodybuilding and weightlifting exercise in which a lifter lies on a bench with the feet on the floor and raises a weight with both arms.
What is bench press?
grant to (someone) the use of (something) on the understanding that it shall be returned.
What is lend?
a slowly moving mass or river of ice formed by the accumulation and compaction of snow on mountains or near the poles.
What is a glacier?
a place of refuge or safety. / a nature reserve
What is a sanctuary?
adjective
What is exhausting?
exercises developing or displaying physical agility and coordination. The modern versions of this typically involves exercises on uneven bars, balance beam, floor, and vaulting horse (for women), and horizontal and parallel bars, rings, floor, and pommel horse (for men).
What is gymnastics?
fix or mend (a thing suffering from damage or a fault).
What is repair?
verb - develop in a particular way; progress. / determine the nature of; have a great influence on. /
What is shape?
adj - closely compacted in substance. / a way to call a person stupid
What is dense?
adjective
What is creative?
a team game played with an oval ball that may be kicked, carried, and passed from hand to hand. Points are scored by grounding the ball behind the opponents' goal line (thereby scoring a try) or by kicking it between the two posts and over the crossbar of the opponents' goal. Originally from England.
What is rugby?
an irreversible, progressive brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills and, eventually, the ability to carry out the simplest tasks. In most people with the disease—those with the late-onset type—symptoms first appear in their mid-60s.
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
verb - (of wind, water, or other natural agents) gradually wear away (soil, rock, or land).
What is erode?
the draining away of water (or substances carried in it) from the surface of an area of land, a building or structure, etc. / the water or other material that drains freely off the surface of something.
What is runoff