Ecology - Grade 3 (Chapters 5-9)

Destructive Vocab

100

To wear away over time due to wind or water

ERODE

200

Something powerful, especially in nature

FORCE

300

A condition in which a body of water rises and overflows beyond usual limits

FLOOD

400

Slowly changed into stone over time

PETRIFIED

500

The invention of useful things or solving problems using science and engineering

TECHNOLOGY

Pollution Vocab

100

In danger of completely dying out

ENDANGERED

200

A platform built above the ocean to support drilling for oil underwater

OIL RIG 

300

An event during which oil is released into nature, usually into water, causing pollution

OIL SPILL

400

Dirty and unsafe

POLLUTION

500

A floating barrier put into water to keep oil from spreading

OIL BOOM

Reviving Vocab

100

A useful or valuable thing found in nature

NATURAL RESOURCE

200

To process old things so they can be used again to make new things

RECYCLE

300

A person who studies living things in nature

NATURALIST

400

A valuable, important, or special thing in nature

NATURAL TREASURE

500

A person who works to protect animals, plants and other natural resources

CONSERVATIONIST