Trom Besisi Unit 3 Vocabulary

a piece of rock in space, more than 10 meters across

• dinosaur
• species
• asteroid
• volcano

a mountain that sends out fire and hot rock from deep down in Earth

• comet
• asteroid
• collide
• volcano

to burst into small pieces, making a loud noise and causing damage, or to make something do this

• explode
• destroy
• collide
• mass extinction

an object in the sky like a very bright ball with a tail, that moves through space

• volcano
• comet
• asteroid
• extinct

to damage something so badly that it cannot be used or no longer exists

• destroy
• explode
• collide
• extinct

to crash into or hit another moving object

• destroy
• explode
• mass extinction
• collide

a type of reptile, mostly large, no longer living; lived in Mesozoic Era

• dinosaur
• species
• extinct
• mass extinction

when all animals of a species are dead

• mass extinction
• extinct
• species
• dinosaur

many species of an animal dying at the same time

• dinosaur
• asteroid
• mass extinction
• collide

a specific type of animal, plant, etc. 

• volcano
• species
• comet
• asteroid