Lesson 10: Vocabulary

What is a coral reef?

• underwater ridges that are found in warm seawater and are made from skeletons of small ocean animals called polyps

• substances that can blow up with a sudden force of energy

• a fuel in engines and motors

WHat is algae?

• a liquid from petroleum used as a fuel

• a group of living things, sharing the same environment

• simple cousins of plants that grow in water and make their own food.

What is a community?

• continuous movement of sea water in a direction

• a group of living things, sharing the same environment

• hard structures that support and protect the bodies of some animals

What is a current?

• continuous movement of sea water in a direction

• substances that can blow up with a sudden force of energy

• a shallow body of water separated from the ocean by a reef or sandbar

What is destroy?

• to keep safe from harm or injury

• to cause destruction to something that makes it unable to be used or it no longer exists

• a fuel in engines and motors

What is disease?

• illnesses that hurt the way something normally functions

• easily damaged or broken; delicate

• the land along the edge of the sea

What are explosives?

• a liquid from petroleum used as a fuel

• substances that can blow up with a sudden force of energy

• to keep safe from harm or injury

What is fragile?

• continuous movement of sea water in a direction

• a substance that can cause illness or death to an organism

• easily damaged or broken; delicate

What is gas?

• a fuel in engines and motors

• small sea animals that have tube like bodies

• to cause destruction to something that makes it unable to be used or it no longer exists

What is lagoon?

• the land along the edge of the sea

• small sea animals that have tube like bodies

• a shallow body of water separated from the ocean by a reef or sandbar