Vocab Reading Semester 1 Grade 8 Meeting 1

an expert in or student of the branch of science concerning living organism

• scientiest

• doctor

• biologist

• cryptozoologist

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

live, especially under adverse condition

• unbury

• exist

• destruction

• extinction

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

a person who is studying or has expert knowledge of one or more of the natural or physical sciences

• scientist

• science

• biologist

• experiment

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

an elongated, fast swimming cephalopod mollusk with ten arms, able to change color

• jellyfish

• starfish

• squid

• octopus

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

the superlative of very small

• smaller

• smallest

• tiny

• tiniest

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

a warm blooded vertebrate animal of a class that is distinguished by the possession of hair, fur, the secretion of milk, and the birth of live young

• cow

• goat

• insect

• mammal

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

large underground chamber, typically of natural origin, in a hillside or cliff

• hill

• cave

• river

• seashore

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

a structure or place made or chosen by a bird for laying eggs and sheltering its young

• nest

• cage

• zoo

• house

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

extremely good

• well known

• tiny

• excellent

• exhausted

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

animals that cryptozoologists believe may exist somewhere in the wild, but whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated by science

• animal

• cryptids

• insect

• wild

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4