Open Court Reading Unit 4 Lesson 2 Vocabulary

moving or roaming quietly or secretly

• scurry

• prowling

• decoy

• texture

animals that eat the flesh of other animals

• carnivores

• decoy

• monarch

• gland

animals that live by hunting other animals for food

• roost

• prairie dogs

• predators

• range

a variety o choices within a scale

• range

• gland

• monarch

• scurry

a slimy fluid that coats and protects the mouth

• mucus

• carnivores

• monarch

• selected

something or someone used to draw attention away from another

• decoy

• texture

• monarch

• prairie dogs

a large orange and black butterfly found in north America

• prowling

• monarch

• gland

• scurry

A part inside the body that takes certain substances from blood and changes them into chemicals that the body uses or gives off

• gland

• mucus

• roost

• prairie dogs

Animals related to the squirrel that live underground dens in the prairies of western United states

• roost

• scurry

• mucus

• Prairie dogs

to move in a hurry

• roost

• texture

• scurry

• range