Grade 5-6: Vocabulary Lesson for Thursday, Week 2

This week's theme is: Weather

Word List 2

1. runoff: precipitation that flows across land surface or falls into rivers and streams
2. biosphere: The part of the earth in which living things exist or that is capable of supporting life
3. dehydrated: to remove water from
4. analyze: studying something very carefully
5. dissipate: to break up and scatter
6. hydrosphere: all the water on the surface of the Earth
7. deluge: a heavy rainfall or flood, or an overwhelming, floodlike rush of anything

Thursday Activities

1. Use this site to create your own flashcards and quizzes. Create a free account to keep your cards.
2. Word Scrambler - Click on the link and create your own word scrambler with your vocabulary words. Type in the number of words you wish to scramble and press the "next" button. You will see a sheet that has the answers for you. Press next again and print out the page. Complete it and put it in your notebook.
3. Create a word cloud. word cloud with this tool. Type in each vocabulary word. Also type in some synonyms and antonyms of each word. When you are finished, click "Go." See if you can match up the vocabulary word with its synonyms and antonyms.

Other Help

If you need more information on your words, click on the link to use a on-line dictionary.

Use the daily activities to help you remember words that you learn each week. It is much easier to remember what the words mean if you do something with them and use them frequently in talking with your parents, family and friends.

Sample sentences:

Weathermen can forcast the runoff for each type of precipitation.
Polluted runoff can affect plants and animals.

Living things in the biosphere can be grouped by their food chains.
Scientists study how humans affect the biosphere.

Exercizing dehydrates your body.
Warm weather can dehydrate children quickly.

When you go sailing, it is smart to analyze the weather first.
Meteorologists analyze data constantly in order to predict upcoming weather.

The clouds dissipated and we were able to see the sun.
Be careful of harmful sprays that dissipate into the atmosphere.

The hydrosphere covers the majority of the Earth.
Most globes use the color blue to identify the hydrosphere.

The summer rain quickly turned into a deluge.
A deluge of applications came in for the job being offered.

 
 

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