accomplish	backcountry	biology	attract

advocate	blossom	broker	authority

agency	calendars	capillaries	artificial

ambassador	captive	carnivores	comets

archaeologists	cells	civilizations	conquistador

arrest	cocoon	collision	corona

**Write one of the word from the word box to match each definition.

1. (               ) Made by a human being, not by nature.

2. (               ) A division of government or some other organization that offers a special kind of help.

3. (               ) To do or carry out

4. (               ) Tiny blood vessels joining the arteries and the veins.

5. (               ) Experts in the study of ancient times and peoples. They dig up the remains of buildings, tombs, and cities to try and learn about ancient civilizations.

6. (               ) A person who speaks or writes in favor of something.

7. (               ) To seize or take to jail on a charge of breaking the law.

8. (               ) The silky case that caterpillars spin to shelter themselves while they are changing into butterflies or moths.

9. (               ) Any person sent as a representative or messenger.

10. (               ) To make someone or something come closer.

11. (               ) A person or organization that has the right to govern or the poser to enforce laws.

12. (               ) An area outside of settled lands.

13. (               ) A flower. When something (               ), it means that it grows and opens like a flower.

14. (               ) The outer layer of gases surrounding the sun. The (               ) forms a ring of light around the sun that is seen during a total eclipse.

15. (               ) A person who is paid to buy and sell for someone else. To (               ) something means to arrange, bargain, or settle it.

16. (               ) The science dealing with living things, plants and animals, and how they live and grow.

17. (               ) Systems for arranging time into days, weeks, months, and years.

18. (               ) Frozen masses of dust and gas that move in regular courses around the sun.

19. (               ) An animal that feeds on the meat of other animals.

20. (               ) A person or creature that is caught and held prisoner. To be held (               )  means to be a prisoner.

21. (               ) Very small, basic units of living matter.

22. A (               ) is a way of life of a people, nation, or time in history. (               )s means more than one (               ).

23. (               ) The act of coming together with force, a crash.

24. (               ) A Spanish conqueror of the Americas during the early 1500s.

data	dedicate	development	devices	diameter

disaster	eclipses	elaborate	empire	estimate

estivation	evaporate	evidence	exploration	explosives

fabled	feat	focus	forty-niners	fragments

ganutlet	genus	gills	govern

**Write one of the word from the word box to match each definition.

1. (               ) Facts or figures which can be studied in order to make conclusions or judgments.

2. (               ) Substances that can explode, or blow up and burst with a loud noise and power.

3. (               ) As told about in fables or legends.

4. (               ) To have control over, rule, direct, or manage.

5. (               ) To set aside for a special purpose. Someone who is (              ) to a thing has spent a lot of time working on that thing.

6. (               ) The process of traveling in a region that is not well known in order to find out more about it.

7. (               ) Something done that shows great courage, skill, or strength. A remarkable deed.

8. (               ) The organ for breathing used by most animals that live in water.

9. (               ) The act or process of causing to grow or improve in some way.

10. (               ) Something that shows or proves, or gives reason for believing.

11. (               ) Something in (       ) is able to be clearly seen and is not fuzzy. To concentrate on something.

12. (               ) A kind, sort, or class. The (          ) and species for human beings ar Homo sapiens.

13. (               ) Tools or machines made or invented for some special use.

14. (               ) To turn into a gas or vapor.

15. (               ) Gold seekers who arrived in California in the year 1849.

16. (               ) A metal glove worn by knights in armor. To "throw down the (         )" means to challenge someone, especially to a fight.

17. (               ) A straight line passing through the center of a circle or sphere, from one side to the other.

18. (               ) To make a general but careful guess about the size, quality, value, or cost of something.

19. (               ) Pieces of something that has broken.

20. (               ) A happening that causes much damage or suffering.

21. (               ) A group of countries or territories under the control of one government or ruler.

22. (               ) Worked out in a very careful way with many details. To (               ) on something means to make it more detailed.

23. (               ) An (          ) is a darkening or hiding of the sun by the moon or by the earth's shadow.

24. (               ) The act or process of staying in a deep sleep during the summer.

heartbeat	heroic	homeland	imprison	integration

intellectual	kilometers	labor	lady-in-waiting	lecture

lens	lend	liberty	locomotive	merchants

millimeter	miners	minute	missionary	momentum

native	nectar	nobles	normal

**Write one of the word from the word box to match each definition.

1.(               ) Having to do with the ability to understand ideas and to think.

2.(               ) Units of length, each equal to 1,000 meters.

3.(               ) A woman who lives in the household of a queen or princess and waits upon, or serves, her.

4.(               ) People who have a high rank in society and titles. Aristocracy.

5.(               ) A talk on some subject to an audience or class.

6.(               ) A single contraction and expansion of the heart muscle.

7.(               ) Work or toil

8.(               ) Strength or force that keeps going.

9.(               ) A very small unit of length, equal to 1/1000 of a meter.

10.(               ) A person who buys or sells goods for a profit.

11.(               ) To bring together into a whole or unite and unify.

12.(               ) A person whose work is digging ore (like gold), coal, salt or other things that are mined.

13.(               ) A person sent out by a church to spread its religion in a foreign country.

14.(               ) Born in or belonging naturally in a certain place or country.

15.(               ) The sweet liquid in many flowers, made into honey by bees.

16.(               ) Showing great bravery and daring, like a hero.

17.(               ) To put or keep in prison.

18.(               ) The quality of being free of control from others.

19.(               ) The country in which a person was born or has lived a long time.

20.(               ) A piece of clear glass or plastic that is curved on one or both sides so as to bring together or spread rays of light that pass through it.

21.(               ) To (     ) someone use something of yours for a while.

22.(               ) Usual or regular

23.(               ) When this word means very small or tiny, it is pronounced my-NOOT. When this word is pronounced MIN-it, it means a unit of time measurement.

24.(               ) An electric, steam, or diesel engine on wheels, designed to run on rails and to push or pull railroad cars. A train.

observation	orbits	ornaments	ovecome	oveland

patriots	percent	phases	photosphere	physics

pollen	portage	poverty	precise	probability

protein	protists	province	pyramids	range

reduce	relay	revolutionary	royal colony	rugged

**Write one of the word from the word box to match each definition.

1.(               ) To get the better of. To be victorious.

2.(               ) Stages in a process.

3.(               ) The act or process of seeing and noticing things.

4.(               ) A person who has great love for his or her own country and is loyal to it.

5.(               ) The science that deals with energy and matter, and studies the way things are moved and work is done.

6.(               ) Exact in every detail.

7.(               ) An (           ) is the path followed by an object in space as it repeatedly goes around another, such as the path of a planet around the sun.

8.(               ) An (           ) is anything added or put on to make something look better. A decoration.

9.(               ) A region in or belonging to a country, having its own government.

10.(               ) By, on, or across land.

11.(               ) The carrying of canoes and supplies around waterfalls and rapids or overland between rivers.

12.(               ) The limits within which there are changes or differences of amount or degree.

13.(               ) Something found in all living things and in foods such as cheese, meat, eggs, and beans, that is a necessary part of an animals diet.

14.(               ) The visible surface of the sun.

15.(               ) Having a rough or uneven surface.

16.(               ) Bringing about a very great change. When a (          ) happens in a country it means that there is a sudden, complete change of government.

17.(               ) A portion of a whole expressed as a number out of 100.

18.(               ) The yellow powder found on the stamens of flowers which fertilizes the flower when the pollen is carried to the pistil by bees.

19.(               ) The condition of being poor.

20.(               ) The fact of being probable or having a good chance.

21.(               ) Organisms that have only one cell and a nucleus.

22.(               ) A solid figure whose sloping sides are triangles that come together in a point at the top.

23.(               ) To make smaller or less.

24.(               ) A race in which each member of a team runs only a part of the whole distance.

25.(               ) A colony or settlement controlled by a king or queen.

rumors	satellite	scholarship	sculpture	segregation

solar flares	solar wind	sprinter	surgeon	survive

symbiosis	tadpoles	temples	terrain	themes

tissue	transcontinental	treason	universe	vertebrates

viceroy	volumes	zero

**Write one of the word from the word box to match each definition.

1.(               )A person who runs fast, short races at full speed.

2.(               )The practice of forcing people of different racial groups to live apart from each other and go to separate schools.

3.(               )Stories that are told as news, may or may not be true, and are passed from one person to another.

4.(               )To continue to live or exist.

5.(               )Topics or subjects.

6.(               )A fast-moving stream of particles thrown into space by solar flares.

7.(               )A gift of money to help a student pay for school costs.

8.(               )An object that is in orbit around a planet. (           ) can be artificial, like the ones that broadcast TV signals, or natural, like the moon.

9.(               )A statue or other art object made by carving wood or stone or casting metal.

10.(               )Brief bursts of energy from the sun's photosphere.

11.(               )Buildings for the worship of a god gods.

12.(               )Going from one side of a continent to the other.

13.(               )A person who rules a colony or territory for a king or queen.

14.(               )A doctor who specializes in surgery, the treating of disease or injury by cutting into the body and removing or repairing particular parts.

15.(               )All space and everything in it, the earth, sun, stars, and all things that exist.

16.(               )The number or symbol 0, meaning nothing or none.

17.(               )A long term relationship between different types of organisms that benefits them both.

18.(               )A young frog or toad when it still has a tail and lives only in water.

19.(               )Ground or an area of land.

20.(               )The act or an instance of working against one's own government.

21.(               )Any material, made up of cells, that forms some part of a plant or animal.

22.(               )Animals that have a backbone.

23.(               )Books.