| Blizzards |
A
violent windstorm accompanied by intense cold and driving snow (common
in Antarctica) |
| Brood
Pouch |
A
skin pouch in the front of a penguin's body used for protecting its
eggs and young |
| Buoyancy |
The
ability to float |
| Conservation |
Preservation
from loss, injury, decay, or waste. Official protection of rivers,
forests, and other natural resources |
| Deforestation |
Wholesale
destruction of trees |
| Encroachment |
To
advance beyond proper limits; to trespass upon other's property |
| Endangered |
Threatened
with danger or extinction |
| Environment |
An
animal's surroundings |
| Extinct |
Not
existing now; died out |
| Habitat |
The
native environment of an animal; the kind of place that is natural
for the life and growth of an animal |
| Iceberg |
A
huge floating chunk of ice broken away from a glacier |
| Impenetrable |
Not
capable of being penetrated or entered (as a penguin's feathers are
to water) |
| Incubate |
To
warm an egg so it can hatch |
| Incapable |
Not
being able to do something |
| Oil
Tanker |
A
huge ship that hauls oil across the oceans |
| Poacher |
An
illegal hunter |
| Preen |
To
clean or smoothe feathers |
| Preservation
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The
act of saving, or keeping alive |
| Regurgitate |
Like
vomiting, only the food is processed before thrown up. Adult penguins
feed their young this way. |
| Rookery |
A
breeding place of birds and animals |
| Skua |
A
large penguinlike bird that can fly |
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