Nonfiction Elements Vocabulary Review

DEBRIS

• scattered remains of something, trash, or litter

• unusual or impressive

• steep

• to imitate

an unexpected meeting

• function

• encounter

• debris

• spectacular

special force used when saying a particular word or syllable; stress

• artificial

• charts

• techniques

• emphasis

steps in the line of descent from a common ancestor

• diagram

• flexible

• function

• generations

was a sign of; showed

• indicated

• biography

• debris

• artificial

a person who specializes in the study of things in nature especially animals and plants

• Michael Jordan

• naturalist

• beans

• flexible

STEEP

• sheer

• collaborate

• spectacular

• Amazon

very unusual or impressive

• artificial

• caption

• spectacular

• function

made by people not by nature; not natural

• dedicated

• charts

• sheer

• artificial

to work together on something

• mimic

• encounter

• collaborate

• dogs