The Trash Vortex - Vocabulary - Ch. 1 & 2

Yacht

• A sailboat

• A farm animal.

• A type of food.

• A landscape feature.

Expanse

• A class students take at school.

• A wide, continuous surface.

• Something that costs a lot of money.

• Food that a zookeeper feeds a zoo animal.

Brisk

• Tacos.

• Slow.

• Quickly.

• Medium speed.

Gyre

• An African animal with a long neck.

• A mythical monster.

• Greek food.

• A whirlpool.

Sluggish

• Hitting something with a bat.

• Moving quickly

• Moving slowly.

• Moving in a zigzag pattern.

Detour

• What a person does when they do not feel well.

• Going a different direction than originally intended.

• Driving very fast.

• What people say when the Tour De France goes by.

Organism

• A dead thing.

• A living thing.

• Things that live in zoos.

• Events that happen at sports competitions.

Speckle

• A large number of small pieces.

• A small number of large pieces.

• Something that we light on the Fourth of July.

• An orange color.

shard

• A type of sword used for battle.

• What you do when you've worked hard all day long.

• A basic utensil used when camping.

• A piece of broken glass, plastic, or metal that has sharp edges.

Pollution

• Where a person goes to walk in a city.

• Something in the environment that has toxic, or negative effects.

• This is what bees do with flowers.

• A process that food goes through when cooked.