Collection 3: Big Rocks' Balancing Acts

As you read Douglas Fox's "Big Rocks' Balancing Acts," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 7's Collection 3: Mississippi Solo, The Tempest, Allied with Green, Big Rocks' Balancing Acts, poems about nature
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  1. pummel
    strike, usually with the fist
  2. geologist
    a specialist in the history of the Earth recorded in rocks
  3. topple
    cause to tumble by pushing
  4. delicate
    easily broken or damaged or destroyed
  5. severity
    the degree of something undesirable as pain or weather
  6. intensity
    high level or degree
  7. gully
    a deep ditch cut by running water
  8. approach
    move towards
  9. bedrock
    solid unweathered stone beneath surface deposits of soil
  10. gradual
    proceeding in small stages
  11. ice age
    a period when glaciers cover much of the Earth's surface
  12. coincidence
    an accidental event that seems to have been arranged
  13. erode
    remove soil or rock
  14. precarious
    fraught with danger
  15. virtual
    existing in essence or effect though not in actual fact
Created on Wed Jul 09 13:00:05 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 10 13:35:03 EDT 2014)

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