These are some words that you will find in our web page:

adaptable: Capable of adjusting to a new environment

cephalothorax: The anterior section of archanids and many crustaceans consisting of the fused head and thorax

crescent: Something having concave and convex edges terminating in points

Crustacean: Any ocean animal without a backbone and with an exoskeleton.

echolocation: The ability of an animal that emits high frequency sounds, such as a bat or dolphin, to orient itself by means of reflected sound waves.

intelligent: Being smart

lifespan: The period of time during whichan organism remains alive under normal conditions

oceanography: the exploration and scientific study of the ocean and it's phenomena

porpoise: Any of several gregarious aquatic mammal of the genus Phocaena and related genera of ocean waters, charistacilly having a blunt snout and a triangulardorsal fin

predator: One that victimizes, plunders, or destroys for one's own gain

recreational: Refreshment of one's mind or body through diverting activity.

reptile: Ant of various cold-blooded , usu. egg-laying vertebrates of the class reptilia, such as a snake turtle or dinosaur, having an external cobering of scales or horny plates and breathing by means of lungs

torpedo: A cigar-shaped , self -propelled, under water launched from an aircraft, ship, or submarine, and designed to detonate on contact with or in the vincity of a target.

 

 

(All definitions were found in The American Heritage College Dictionary or the Reader's Digest Illistrated Encyclopedic Dictionary.)

Links

http://www.sannella.com/explosions/backrounds

http://www.encyclopedia.com

http://www.elibrary.com/s/edumark/

http://www.arribavista.com

http://www.oasd.k12.mi.us

 

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