Happy Valentine's Day and Polar Quiz Reminder

Happy Valentine's Day!  

We hope that you enjoy a wonderful break over the President's Day holiday weekend!  This is just a reminder that our Polar Regions vocabulary quiz will be on Thursday, February 20th.  Students received their study guides last week, and a copy of the words is provided here for your convenience.  

In His Love,  the 4th Grade Team 

Polar Regions Vocabulary Study Guide

1.Prey—an animal hunted and eaten by other animals

2.Predator—an animal that hunts and eats other animals

3.Hibernate—to remain in a deep sleep, in order to survive low temperatures and a lack of food

4.Tundra—ground that is frozen almost all year long

5.Taiga—evergreen forests just below the arctic tundra, known for cold, dry weather (Taiga is the Russian word for forest.)

6.Global warming—the rise in the average temperature of the air and oceans around earth

7.Migrate—to move from one area to another for feeding or breeding

8.Plumage—the feathery covering of a bird

9.Nomad—a wanderer who moves from place to place, following the food supply

10.Habitat—the place where an animal or plant lives

11.Burrow—a hole in the ground or snow dug by a small animal

12.Camouflage—colors and patterns that help an animal blend in to his surroundings

13.Ice floe—a sheet of floating ice

14.Permafrost—ground beneath the surface that stays frozen all year round

15.Northern and Southern Lights—beautiful lights that appear in the sky as dancing columns of different colors of waving curtains of light

16.Glacier—a giant frozen river that moves at a very slow speed

17.Blubber--a thick layer of fat between the skin and the muscle layers of whales and other marine mammals

18.Inuit—people who live in the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada, and the United States