Grade 5-6: Vocabulary Lesson for Wednesday, 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

Wednesday Activities

1. Create your own crossword puzzle. Click on this link and scroll down to the bottom of the page. Enter your words and your clues (definition), then click "Create Crossword Now." A new web page will appear. You can put a title on your puzzle if you wish, then click "Create Crossword." Print this out and complete the puzzle. Insert the completed work in your vocabulary notebook.
2. Make a word cloud at this link. Click on the word Load under the heading Words to get your blank page.
3. Type in your words and their definitions. Click on the submit button. Personalize it by selecting color, shape and more!

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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