Reading 9-24
Terms
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- squawk
- to utter a loud, harsh cry
- emerges
- to come up or arise
- dapple
- to mark or become marked with spots
- solution
- a way to solve a problem
- investigate
- to search and examine
- pollination
- the act of transfering pollen to the stigma from the anther
- amidst
- surrounded by or among
- miracle
- a wonder or a marvel
- scientific
- accurate, systematic, following a set procedure
- canopy
- the top layer of the rain forest
- hesitate
- waiting to act
- generation
- all persons living at about the same time
- biosphere
- the part of earth's crust, waters, and atmosphere where living organisms can exist
- preserve
- to keep alive or in existence
- exotic
- foreign in origin, not native, striking or unusual in appearance
- conclusion
- ending, how soomething ends
- nectar
- a plant secretion on which birds and insects feed
- extinct
- no longer in existence
- experiment
- a test to discover something unknown
- hypothesis
- an educated guess
- substance
- what something is made of
- observation
- a close look
- variable
- not constant, changing
- procedure
- the way something is done
- carbon dioxide
- gas exhaled by humans that plants need in order to live