World Without Fish introduction and chapter 1 vocabulary

All the people living at the same time or of the same age

• Vertebrate

• Species

• Generation

• Organism

animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton

• Organism

• Predator

• Plankton 

• Vertebrate

Voracious

• a group of organisms of the same type living together

• devouring or craving food in great quantities

• a flexible appendage adapted for grasping or feeling

• native to or confined to a certain region

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Organism

• a living thing that can act or function independently

• taxonomic group whose members can interbreed

• a warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin covered with hair

• aggregate of small organisms that float or drift in water

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance

• Species

• Dominate

• Biodiversity

• Colony

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Cataclysm

• a sudden violent change in the earth's surface

• relating to part of the Earth's surface with hot climate

• Have an effect upon 

• characteristic of an earlier ancestral type

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Variation

• an organism that has characteristics resulting from mutation

• connected with or engaged in the exchange of goods

• relating to the study of heredity and variation in organisms

• a small and inadequate amount

the variety of plant and animal life in a habitat

• Extinct

• Evolution

• Mammal

• Biodiversity

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Mammal

• taxonomic group whose members can interbreed

• a warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin covered with hair

• Of or relating to the sea

• aggregate of small organisms that float or drift in water

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

• Disgorge 

• Exposition

• Minuscule

• Variation

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4