Can We Rescue the Reefs

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Can We Rescue the Reefs?

• Genre Science Article Non-fiction
• Students will read about the importance of coral
  reefs to the ecology of our planet. Our coral
  reefs are in danger and we need to work together
  to rescue them.

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Protecting the Reef (TC 145)

• Oil companies, careless divers, and an invasion
  by crown-of-thorns starfish threaten the Great
  Barrier Reef. The reef a 30-million-year-old
  limestone formation-needs protection.
• Oil companies want to drill the reef area,
  while some divers wish to collect souvenirs of
  the reef itself. Collectors prize its brightly
  colored formations. Australia has made most of
  the reef a national park and created laws against
  drilling or collecting. However, scientists have
  yet to solve the problem of invasions of
  crown-of-thorns starfish, which have multiplied
  out of control at times and eat the animals that
  form coral reefs.

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Coral Reefs (TC 146)

• 1. Coral are tiny ocean animals that live
  tightly-packed together in groups. 2. In warm,
  shallow seas the shells of these tiny animals
  eventually form reefs. 3. Sadly, up to 60
  percent or a bit more than half of these coral
  reefs may be destroyed in the next 45 years. 4.
  The damage to the coral is related to harmful
  human actions. 5. When people clear land,
  loosened dirt washes into the sea. 6. The tons
  of dirt fill the water and block the light that
  algae plants, which play an important role in
  building coral reefs, need to survive.

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Name That Reef (TC 148)

• There are three types of coral reefs fringing
  reefs, barrier reefs, and atolls. A fringing
  reef grows from the edge of the land, such as the
  shore of a beach, with no water between the reef
  and the land.
• The barrier reef is farther off the shore. It
  acts as a barrier, or a block, between the water
  near the shore and the open ocean. An atoll is
  an island made of coral. It usually has a narrow
  horseshoe shape surrounding a body of shallow
  water known as a lagoon.

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The Great Barrier Reef (TC 149)

• The Great Barrier Reef is a chain of coral
  reefs in the Coral Sea, off the northeastern
  coast of Australia.
• The 1,250-mile-long (2,000 km) reef protects
  the mainland from being hammered by harsh winds
  and waves.
• The Great Barrier Reef is currently
  experiencing a problem. An animal called the
  crown-of-thorns starfish has invaded the reef and
  is killing the coral. No one knows if the coral
  will be able to bounce back.

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Daily Language Review (Monday)

• The coral gets ____ food from plants.
• ______ responsible for cleaning.
• ________ anchors hurt the reef.

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Daily Language Review (Tuesday)

• ______ are about 2500 types of coral.
• Coral reefs are known for _______ many colors.
• _____ time we helped save the coral.

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Daily Language Review (Wednesday)

• _________ are reefs along the sea.
• _________ damaged by fishing.
• ________ doing something about it.

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Daily Language Review (Thursday)

• Storms often rock ________ boats.
• _______ nets can be dangerous to sea creatures.
• The fish gets ______ food from the coral.

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Daily Language Review (Friday)

• _____ amazing to see all the shapes.
• Some fish change ________ colors.
• __________ many different types.

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Antonyms (Opposites)

• 1. expose ___ a. living
• 2. survive ___ b. tightened
• 3. dying ___ c. perish, die
• 4. loosened ___ d. protect, shelter
• 5. extreme ___ e. past
• 6. future ___ f. normal, average

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Synonyms (Same meaning)

• 1. rescue ___ a. help
• 2. assist ___ b. narrow waterway
• 3. channel ___ c. harm
• 4. locate ___ d. save
• 5. damage ___ e. boat, water craft
• 6. vessel ___ f. find

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Definitions I

• protect ___ a. make necessary changes
• adapt ___ b. keep from harm
• reefs ___ c. animals
• danger ___ d. peril, harm
• seaweed ___ e. ocean plants
• creatures ___ f. oceanic structure of
  animal shells

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Definitions II

• dissolve ___ g. underwater swimmers
• motion ___ h. important characteristic
• feature ___ i. movement
• divers ___ j. protection from harm
• coral ___ k. become solution
• percent ___ n. portion, part
• shelter ___ o. living structure of animals

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Homophone List 16

• Can you tell __________________ the
  ________________ is going to change?
• Please _______________ if they will
  ________________ the admission fee.
• Did he ______________ the small chest of
  _______________ tools?
• The ship sailed _________________ through the
  _____________ of Gibraltar.
• ____________ be happy to help you _____________
  the garden.

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Homophone List 16

• _____________ smile tells us that
  _________________ happy.
• The hotel manager was very ___________ to let us
  have the last ___________.
• On ___________ afternoon, we all buy a hot fudge
  ______________ at Sonic.
• The beef hung from a ______________ until it was
  cut into a _____________.
• I rode my ___________________ bike while I wrote
  a letter on my ___________________________.

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Latin and Greek Roots - 1

• mono ____a. two
• dens/dentis ____c. brain
• bi ____d. head
• tri ____e. fourth
• quartus ____f. three
• December ____g. hundred
• centum ____h. one
• caput ____i. tooth
• cerebrum ____j. ten
• facies ____k. face

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Match the Meanings with the word based on the
root meaning

• Monarchy ____a. Professional who cares for
  teeth
• bisect ____b. Contest of ten track and field
  events
• trilogy ____c. Part of the brain that
  controls memory
• quartet ____d. Music composition for four
  voices
• decathlon ____e. Single or one ruler
• centigrade ____f. One who leads or guides
  others
• captain ____g. Treatment for the face
• cerebrum ____h. Divide in two equal parts
• facial ____i. One hundred degree thermometer
• dentist ____j. A set of three literary or
  dramatic works

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Match the Meanings with the word based on the
root meaning

• monopoly ____a. Building where law
  makers meet
• biplane ____b. Small notch starting a
  paragraph
• trident ____c. A deceptive front
• quadrangle ____d. An insect with over a
  hundred legs
• decimal ____e. Control by one group
• centipede ____f. Airplane having two
  wings
• capitol ____g. Three-pronged weapon
• cerebral ____h. Numbers built on the
  powers of ten
• facade ____i. Requiring the use of the
  intellect
• indent ____j. Having four angles,
  quadrilateral