The Trash Vortex - Vocabulary - Ch. 1 & 2

Yacht

• A sailboat

• A farm animal.

• A type of food.

• A landscape feature.

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

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.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Brisk

• Tacos.

• Slow.

• Quickly.

• Medium speed.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Gyre

• An African animal with a long neck.

• A mythical monster.

• Greek food.

• A whirlpool.

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Sluggish

• Hitting something with a bat.

• Moving quickly

• Moving slowly.

• Moving in a zigzag pattern.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

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.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Organism

• A dead thing.

• A living thing.

• Things that live in zoos.

• Events that happen at sports competitions.

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

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.

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

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.

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

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.

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4