Collection 4: Living in the Dark

As you read Cheryl Bardoe's "Living in the Dark," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 7's Collection 4: Dedication of the Aerospace Medical Health Center, Mankind's Next Giant Leap, Living in the Dark, Your World
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  1. cache
    a secret store of valuables or money
  2. geyser
    a spring that discharges hot water and steam
  3. Aegean Sea
    an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey
  4. meager
    deficient in amount or quality or extent
  5. Garden of Eden
    a beautiful garden where Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation; when they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were driven from their paradise (the fall of man)
  6. tectonic
    pertaining to the structure or movement of the earth's crust
  7. symbiosis
    the relation between two interdependent species of organisms
  8. greenhouse gas
    a substance in the air that warms a planet by trapping heat
  9. decompose
    break down
  10. persistence
    steady determination
  11. access
    a way of entering or leaving
  12. expedition
    a journey organized for a particular purpose
  13. biodiversity
    the variety of plant and animal life in a habitat
  14. adaptable
    capable of fitting a particular situation or use
  15. ecosystem
    organisms interacting with their physical environment
Created on Sun Jul 13 18:51:42 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 24 11:37:12 EDT 2014)

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