Unit 2: Africa Digs Vocabulary

a dry place with few plants

• desert

• emerge

• pulley

• port

to come out or appear

• desert

• emerge

• pulley

• port

a small wheel over which a rope moves to help lift or move objects

• desert

• emerge

• pulley

• port

a place on the water where people load and unload ships

• desert

• emerge

• pulley

• port

exact or to pay attention to details

• precise

• create

• fragile

• display

to make

• precise

• create

• fragile

• display

easily broken or delicate

• precise

• create

• fragile

• display

to show or to put

• precise

• create

• fragile

• display

Because there is so little rain, plants that don’t need much water grow in a _____.

If I were looking in a hole and a snake ____d, it would certainly scare me.