VOCABULARY GRADE 6 OPEN COURT UNIT 5 Ecology

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VOCABULARY GRADE 6 OPEN COURT UNIT 5Ecology

• MYLES
• ROOM 16

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SCHEDULE

• DAY ONE WORD KNOWLEDGE AND VOCABULARY
• DAY TWO DEFINITIONS
• DAY THREE 5 SENTENCES
• DAY FOUR POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
• MATCHING QUIZ

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Unit 5 ECOLOGY

• - Endangered
• species
• - Adaptation
• - Rachel Carson
• - Rain forest
• - Southwest desert
• - Forest fires
• - Balance of an
• ecosystem

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ECOLOGY TITLES

• Protecting Wildlife
• The Most Beautiful Roof in the World
• Alejandros Gift
• A Natural Force
• Saving the Peregrine Falcon
• The Day They Parachuted Cats on Borneo

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Unit Vocabulary Words

• Lesson 1 Protecting Wildlife
• trawling
• poaching
• atmosphere
• ozone layer
• radioactive fuel

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Matching Quiz

• Lesson 1
• Type of fishing done with a net dragged across
  the bottom of the sea.
• Taking animals from a forbidden area.
• Layer in the atmosphere that holds a specific
  type or form of oxygen.
• Particle or wave-emitting materials used to
  create energy.
• Gaseous layer of air that surrounds the earth.

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Unit Vocabulary Words

• Lesson 2 The Most Beautiful Roof in
• the World
• canopy
• parabolas
• synchronized
• foraging
• metabolic

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Matching Quiz

• Lesson 2
• Relating to the means in which food is converted
  to energy.
• To hunt or search for food or supplies.
• Motion having the form of an open curve.
• Anything that acts or seems to act as an
  overhanging shelter or covering.
• To happen at the same time.

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Unit Vocabulary Words

• Lesson 3 Alejandros Gift
• adobe
• endure
• cherrished
• furrows
• drudgery

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Matching Quiz

• Lesson 3
• To put up with to bear or stand.
• Long narrow grooves or tracks cut in the earth by
  a farming tool.
• Brick made of clay baked in the sun.
• Held dear deeply loved.
• Work that is hard and tiresome.

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Unit Vocabulary Words

• Lesson 4 A Natural Force
• crown
• inevitable
• adapted
• deciduous
• predatory

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Matching Quiz

• Lesson 4
• Cannot be avoided for certain.
• Changed to fit new conditions or surroundings.
• Living by preying on other animals.
• The highest part of anything.
• Cannot be avoided for certain.

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Unit Vocabulary Words

• Lesson 5 Saving the Peregrine Falcon
  DDT
• eyries
• incubator
• pip
• crop

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Matching Quiz

• Lesson 5
• Pouches in birds necks used to store food.
• First crack in an egg made by a hatching chick.
• Heated container for hatching eggs.
• Powerful poison that kills insects it is
  restricted by law because of damaging
  environmental effects.
• Nests for birds of prey built in high places.

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Unit Vocabulary Words

• Lesson 6 The Day They Parachuted
• Cats on Borneo
  liquified
• postscriptum
• steeped
• rendezvous
• straddles

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Matching Quiz

• Lesson 6
• Soaked, drenched, or saturated by a liquid, gas,
  or solid substance.
• Having one part on this side and the other part
  on the other side.
• Meeting of two or more persons or things at a
  certain time and place.
• Made into a liquid or fluid.
• Statement added to a passage or piece of writing
  that has already been concluded.

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RESOURCES

• http//www.needleworkspictures.com/ocr/grade6/inde
  x.html - general resources
• http//hometown.aol.com/mayaneight/wetlandslessonp
  lan/index.html - Wetlands online lesson

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