The Story of the Three Whales

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The Story of the Three Whales

• Vocabulary Lesson
• Marilyn Souza
• Gold Oak Elementary

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plankton

• Sea soup made up of tiny shrimp (krill) tiny
  algae seaweed.

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bloom

• Large group of plankton floating on the ocean
  surface

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Squid

• An ink-squirting sea animal with a tube-shaped
  body and ten arms with tentacles

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herd

• A group of animals. A herd of whales is usually
  called a pod.

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plunging

• Diving quickly down into the water

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Pack-Ice

• Sea ice that forms when pieces of floating ice
  get crushed together.

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surface

• 1. The top part or layer of something
• 2. To come up to the surface

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Inuit
People native to the North Northwestern part of
the Arctic North America
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persuade

• To convince someone to do or believe something

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trudged

• Walked with great effort

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plight

• A very bad situation

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ordeal

• A very difficult and stressful time or event

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invincible

• So strong that it cant be beaten or broken

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concrete torpedo

• A heavy stone or cement block used to hit
  something hard enough to make it break apart

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Ice breaker

• A ship used to break a passage through ice

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froth

• Bubbles that form in liquid, foam

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waterspout

• A stream of water that shoots from a whales
  blowhole when it comes to the surface for air and
  exhales
• Also called a spout

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