Unit 2 Week 3A Vocabulary

long periods of dry weather without rainfall

• extinct

• drought

• flourished

• imbalance

thrived or grew strongly

• fragile

• ripples

• flourished

• crumbled

parts are not in an equal, steady, or secure position

• ecosystem

• fragile

• imbalance

• drought

broken into small pieces

• extinct

• crumbled

• ripples

• jumble

all the living and nonliving things in an area

• ecosystem

• ripples

• imbalance

• habitat

no longer exists

• dead

• endangered

• extinct

• fragile

delicate and tends to break easily

• crumbles

• durable

• extinct

• fragile

forms small waves

• ripples

• rock

• droughts

• tsunami