1.

absorb	amphibian	antennae	before	blizzard
blocks	bloom	brain	break	brightest
bumpy	butterflies	cactus	careful	chirp
compass	constellations	cool	country	crickets
croak	day	doctor	dry

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

1. (               ) The whole land of a nation.

2. (               ) An animal that can live both on land and in the water.

3. (               ) Not wet or damp.

4. (               ) The gray and white organ in your head that you think with.

5. (               ) Groups of stars, usually named after something they supposedly look like.

6. (               ) Leaping insects related to the grasshopper.

7. (               ) An instrument for showing direction.

8. (               ) To take in another thing. Something that is ___________ing is interesting.

9. (               ) To make flowers or grow.

10. (               ) To make something come apart by force.

11. (               ) To make a deep, hoarse sound in the throat.

12. (               ) A pair of feelers on the head of an insect, crab, or lobster.

13. (               ) To make a short, shrill sound like that of some birds and insects.

14. (               ) Most full of light.

15. (               ) Thick pieces of something that usually have flat sides. Bricks.

16. (               ) A period of 24 hours, measured from midnight to midnight.

17. (               ) Earlier than.

18. (               ) Taking care so that there are no mistakes or accidents.

19. (               ) Full of bumps. A bump is a part that bulges out.

20. (               ) To make something not warm, but not very cold.

21. (               ) A heavy snowstorm with very strong, cold winds.

22. (               ) A plant with a fleshy stem with spines instead of leaves.

23. (               ) A person trained to heal sick people.

24. (               ) A _______________ is an insect with a thin body and four wide, usually brightly colored, wings.

2.

eggs	energy	exchange	family	feathers
few	flap	force	germs	habitat
healthy	hearing	heavy	holiday	hospital
igloos	illness	insect	iron	lamp
landmarks	large	learn	loose

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

1. (               ) To give similar things to one another.  To trade things.

2. (               ) Not packed down or pressed tightly together.  Free.

3. (               ) Oval or round bodies that are laid by female birds, fish, and reptiles.

4. (               ) The power to cause motion or to stop or change motion.

5. (               ) A place where doctors and nurses take care of sick people.

6. (               ) The power to work or be active.

7. (               ) To get some knowledge or skill, especially by studying or being taught.

8. (               ) An easily magnetized, white metal that can be made into various shapes after it is heated.

9. (               ) The soft, light parts that grow out of the skin of birds.

10. (               ) A small animal with six legs, usually two pairs of wings, and a three-part body.

11. (               ) To move up and down or back and forth.

12. (               ) A day when many people do not have to go to work or go to school.

13. (               ) Dome-shaped or round houses made of blocks of packed snow.

14. (               ) A group made up of related plants, animals, or people.

15. (               ) A thins for giving light.

16. (               ) Larger, deeper, thicker, or greater than usual.

17. (               ) Not many.  A small number of something.

18. (               ) Big.

19. (               ) The place where an animal or plant is usually found.

20. (               ) Using the ears to receive sounds.

21. (               ) Buildings, hills, or trees that are easy to see and are used to find or recognize a place.

22. (               ) Living thins that can cause disease and are too small to be seen with the eye.

23. (               ) Sickness or disease.

24. (               ) Having good health.  To be well.

3.

loudest	magnets	melt	message	migrate
mountains	needs	nests	pairs	plains
planet	poles	ponds	presents	problems
reach	repel	river	round	scientists
senses	shells	sidewalk	sight

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

1. (               ) To move from one place to another when the seasons change.

2. (               ) Being able to see.  Vision.

3. (               ) To change from a solid to a liquid by heat.

4. (               ) Two ends of an axis, which is a real or imaginary line around which something turns.

5. (               ) Things that are very important.

6. (               ) A large, natural stream of water.

7. (               ) Most noisy.  Most strong in sound.

8. (               ) The special powers of the body and mind that let people and animals see, hear, taste, touch, and smell.

9. (               ) Shaped like a ball or circle.

10. (               ) A large, round body, like the Earth, that goes around a star.

11. (               ) To drive or force back.

12. (               ) Pieces of metal, such as iron, that have the natural power to draw other metals toward them.

13. (               ) Experts in science.  Science is knowledge made up of facts that learned from watching things happen or by doing experiments.

14. (               ) Large stretches of flat land.

15. (               ) Hard outer coverings.

16. (               ) Things that are hard to deal with, fix, or understand.

17. (               ) To extend or stretch out in space or time.

18. (               ) A piece of news or information that travels from one place to another.

19. (               ) Gifts.

20. (               ) Sets of two things, usually of the same kind.

21. (               ) Parts of the Earth that rise high into the air.  Very high hills.

22. (               ) A path for walking, usually paved, along the side of a street or road.

23. (               ) Small lakes, sometimes made by people.

24. (               ) Places built by birds for laying eggs and caring for their young.

4.

skin	smell	solar system	sound	special
spine	spring	stars	stem	store
strong	taste	tiny	tools	touch
trap	travel	valleys	warm	webbed
wins	young	test	sun

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

1. (               ) To go from one place to another.

2. (               ) Having toes that are joined by skin that makes it easier to swim.

3. (               ) Powerful

4. (               ) Stretches of low land lying between hills or mountains.

5. (               ) The tissue that covers the body of a person or animal.

6. (               ) Parts of an animal's body that are used for flying.

7. (               ) Not like others.  Having to do with a particular use, purpose, or occasion.

8. (               ) Things that are used to do a certain kind of work.

9. (               ) The very hot, bright star around which the Earth and other planets in our solar system revolve.

10. (               ) Using the nose to detect odors.

11. (               ) The power to feel things.

12. (               ) To put something aside until it is needed.

13. (               ) To catch or snare.

14. (               ) The sun and all the planets and other bodies that move around it.

15. (               ) Having or giving off a little heat, but not hot.

16. (               ) Th main part of a plant or tree that grows up from the ground and helps the plant stand up.

17. (               ) Very small.

18. (               ) A backbone in an animal.  A sharp, stiff part like a thorn or quill.

19. (               ) The power of being able to sense the flavor of things.

20. (               ) Something that can be heard.  A noise or tone.

21. (               ) Being in an early part of life or growth.  Not old.

22. (               ) Masses of very hot, glowing material in space that give off light.

23. (               ) To try an idea to see if it will work.

24. (               ) The season between winter and summer, when plants begin to grow.  To jump up.