WorksheetsThe Trash Vortex - Vocabulary - Ch. 1 & 2
Total questions: 75
Worksheet time: 38mins
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.
Ocean Currents
Movement of water from one place to another.
A kind of fruit from Scandinavia.
Staying on top of things.
Whatever is in the ocean right at this moment.
Depict
To show or represent.
To throw something away.
To agree with someone.
A rule or law.
Decode
A hand-written message.
A typed message.
A message written in a foreign language.
Translate a message.
Fluttering
Moving irregularly. Trembling.
Moving quickly.
Rapidly.
Smashing into something with great force.
Not moving at all.
Staying still.
Oceanographer.
Someone that studies the skies.
Someone that studies the land.
Someone that studies the oceans.
Someone that studies space.
Oceanography
The study of land formations.
The study of the ocean.
The study of the solar system.
The study of the cloud formations.
Buoyant
Hanging out on the beach.
To go swimming.
To sink.
To stay afloat.
Circuit
Movement that starts and ends in the same location.
Like a circle.
Movement that starts and ends in different locations.
Like a zig-zag line.
Moving all over the place.
Erratic.
Remaining very still.
Not moving.
Circulate
Swimming under the water.
Flying through the air.
Remaining in one place.
To move freely in a closed area.
Plastiglomerate
A substance made of plastics and other materials.
A substance made of igneous rocks.
A substance that forms under the earth's crust.
A substance that was formed when the earth collided with the moon.
Mechanism
The mechanics of cooking.
Chaos.
A system of parts working together in, or like a machine.
A system where nothing works correctly.
Translucent
Something that allows light to pass through but still can't bee seen through.
Ensuring total darkness.
Crossing from one place to another.
Lighting something on fire.
Sulfur
A kind of seashell.
Something that we find under the ocean.
A breakfast dish.
An element from the Periodic Table that smells like eggs.
Mass
A large body with no real shape.
A very tiny thing.
A large body with points.
Something that we eat.
Undulate
Pushing a boundary.
Suddenly stopping and remaining still.
Zig-zagging
Moving in a smoothly rising and falling form or outline.
What is this an example of?
A tendril.
A Space Alien.
Rope
A lifeline.
Debris
Scattered pieces of waste
Cleanliness.
A person named Deb who is angry.
A type of Swedish food.
Vortex
A whirling mass.
Standing still.
A type of land mammal.
Something only found in space.
What is this an example of?
An open-air blender.
A derecho.
A junior-high student.
A vortex.
Ultra-Violet Rays
Beams of light from the sun that are very damaging to both humans and our environment.
Beams of light from the sun that are good for both humans and our environment.
Beams of light that reflect off the moon.
Beams of light that come from deep inside our solar system,
Brittle
Something that is hard but still breaks easily.
Something that is sturdy.
Something that is soft and bendable.
Something that is liquid and can spray all over the place.
Jostle
To push or bump against something.
To run at a track meet.
To isolate yourself from other people.
A type of ray from the sun.
Microplastics
Small things that are made to be used in a doll house.
Very large items found in big-box stores.
Extremely small pieces of plastic in the environment from the breakdown of plastics.
Extremely small pieces of carbohydrates in the environment.
Swirl
To move.
To move to the music of a marching band.
To move in a straight line.
To move in a spiral or twisting pattern.
Dismay
Sadness / being upset.
Happiness / being joyful
Anger / being furious
Indifferent / not caring
Bizarre
Common or every day.
Strange or unusual.
Frequent or happens a lot.
Rare or rarely happens.
Pristine
Unspoiled / Perfect
Messy / Dirty
Chaotic / Out of Control
Joyful / Happy
Undulate
To move smoothly up and down.
To jump start a car.
To jerk around and break things.
To remain still.
Barnacle
A marine crustacean with an external shell, which sticks itself permanently to a variety of surfaces.
A fish that lives in special areas of the ocean.
Something that lives only in the Atlantic Ocean.
Something that lives in extra warm waters.
Painstaking
Being very careful and exact.
Being sloppy and haphazard.
An injury a person has to go to the hospital for.
Laying out a new building with stakes.
Astounding
Surprising and Impressive
Loud and Obnoxious
Quiet and Reserved
Performing in a circus.
Skeptical
Ignoring everything.
Listening to something.
Believing something.
Not believing something.
Findings
Results
Episodes of a show.
How we calculate math.
Life support.
What is this an example of?
Coral
Turtles
Ocean Currents
Dead things.
What is this an example of?
Barnalces
Salmon
Fish
Syrup
Barf
To vomit or
throw out.
Spit out.
A cookie.
The name of a Star Trek character.
A lifeline.
Uninhabited
A place where no one lives.
A place where a lot of people live.
A place.
An island.
Plastic
Something that can be molded into a shape.
Something that is very stiff and cannot be bent.
Something that is soft and squishy.
Something that you can make in your kitchen.
Plankton
Small / microscopic organisms drifting or floating in the air.
A dead zone where nothing lives.
Small / microscopic organisms drifting or floating in the ocean.
Large / giant organisms drifting or floating in the ocean.
Biomass
Renewable organic material that comes from plants and animals.
Man-made materials.
Materials that come from space.
Materials that come from underground.
Trawl
Fishing with a net.
Fishing with a pole.
Moving slowly with a net.
Moving quickly with a net.
Skim
To remove something from the surface of a liquid.
To remove something from the bottom of a container of liquid.
To remove something from the surface of a solid.
To remove something from the interior of a solid.
Transformation
To drive to another town.
To look through a telescope.
To change.
To look at things close up.
Vulcanize
Changing your appearance.
Turning someone or something into a Vulcan.
The process of treating rubber with sulfur to harden it.
Something you would see in Star Trek.
Biodegrade
To naturally decompose.
To burn something.
To bury something.
To unnaturally decompose.
Discard
A website.
To be unsure.
To throw away.
To keep forever.
Artificial
Something made by people that is not natural.
Something made by people that is completely natural.
Something made by people living in a specific area.
Something made by animals that is not natural.
Imitate
Another word for plastic.
To copy.
To be original.
To be unsure of one's self.
Cellulose
Cloth fibers.
Stone pieces.
Wood fibers.
Plastic pieces.
Synthetic
Something made from chemicals.
Not natural.
Completely natural.
A rock.
A landform.
Petroleum
A kind of sugar cookie.
The study of the earth.
A famous soccer player.
The source of gasoline, kerosene, and fuel oils.
Flexible
A kind of pastry.
Being able to bend without breaking.
Hard core.
Dropping something from a great height.
Bakelite
Food that is not fattening.
Something that bakers use.
The first item made of stone.
The first modern plastic.
Crude Oil
A solid natural resource deep in the earth.
The source of products such as gasoline, jet fuel, and other petroleum products.
A liquid natural resource deep in the earth.
The source of products such as gasoline, jet fuel, and other petroleum products.
Someone that uses very bad language and is rude.
Gasoline!
Yay!
Rigid
Something that is able to flow with the wind or water.
Able to shift, bend, or chage.
Thin
Unable to bend or be flexible or adaptable.
Critical
Something that is important.
Something that is not important.
Something that takes up a lot of space.
A type of fried food.
Civilian
A person that is not in the armed forces or a police officer.
A person that is either in the armed forces or a police officer.
Someone who works with animals for a living.
Someone who works with food for a living.
Affordable
Small
Expensive
Large
Inexpensive
Plentiful
Negative.
Bad.
Abundant.
A lot.
Difficult.
Hard
Beautiful.
Pretty.
Convenience
A place were Nuns go to live.
Something that makes life easier.
Something that makes life harder.
Something that is related to purchasing a car.
Inert
Something that makes a car run.
Term for food that has been burned.
Inactive.
No Motion.
No Resistance.
A high amount of activity.
Benign
Something that comes before the number ten.
Angry.
Bitter.
Gentle.
Kind.
Not harmful.
Medium sized.
Middle.
