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​Find the living things

Look at the photograph? What can you see that is living? What can't you see that is living?
Fill in the bubble map on page 29.

​Living Things

The _____________ is connected to the _______________.
The oxpecker eats ______________that live on the zebra.

​Define: If something crumbled, then it broke into small pieces.

Example: The old brick wall had crumbled over the years.

Crumbled

Define: Droughts are long periods of dry weather without rainfall.

Example: Because of the lack of rain, farmers' crops died during the droughts.

Droughts

​Define: An ecosystem is all the living and nonliving things in an area.

Example: A reef ecosystem can be disrupted if you remove one species that lives in it.

​Ecosystem

Define: Something that is extinct no longer exists.

Example: The American buffalo was hunted so much that it almost became extinct.

​Extinct

​Define: Something that flourished thrived or grew strongly.

Example: The sunflowers grew tall and flourished in the rich soil.

​Flourished

Define: Something that is fragile is delicate and tends to break easily.

Example: Tom held the nest carefully because he was afraid the fragile eggs might break.

Fragile

​Define: An imbalance in something means that its parts are not in an equal, steady, or secure position.

Example: Too much algae created an imbalance in the pond's ecosystem.

​Imbalance

Define: Something that ripples forms small waves.

Example: The water ripples around the swimming dog.

​Ripples