The Day I Saved a Life Vocab

Vivisection

• to surrender or give up

• dissecting a living body for scientific research

• to surrender or give up

• feeling overwhelming joy or excitement

Keystone

• a group of organisms essential to an ecosystem

• to try to influence a politician on behalf of a cause

• dissecting a living body for scientific research

• feeling overwhelming joy or excitement

Lobby

• to surrender or give up

• to try to influence a politician on behalf of a cause

• dissecting a living body for scientific research

• feeling overwhelming joy or excitement

What is the best definition of captivity based on the text? (Paragraph 5)

• A temporary state of being outdoors.
• The act of being free and independent.
• The process of gaining personal freedom.
• The state of being confined or restricted from freedom.

Concede

• a group of organisms essential to an ecosystem

• to try to influence a politician on behalf of a cause

• dissecting a living body for scientific research

• to surrender or give up

What context clue best helps the reader understand the meaning of extinction?

• "It showed me the horrors they faced due to finning."

• " It was a horrible discovery and one that moved me to act and speak up for the sharks. "

• "They were being killed in huge quantities for their fins"

• " The sharks are stripped of their fins then discarded"

Ecstatic

• a group of organisms essential to an ecosystem

• feeling overwhelming joy or excitement

• dissecting a living body for scientific research

• a group of organisms essential to an ecosystem