Vocabulary

• along with: In addition to; together with.
• live for: To consider something the most important thing in your life; to find purpose or great pleasure in something.
• fight back: To make your point more strongly against opponent
• in areas: Located or occurring within specific regions or locations.
• by hand: Done manually; not by machine.
• crucial: Extremely important or necessary
• entire: Complete or full; with no part left out; whole
• eventually: After a long time; after many attempts; in the end
• metabolism: Chemical processes to convert food to energy
• effort: Amount of work used trying to do something
• community: Group of people who share a common idea or area
• disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
• decline: To bend towards the ground
• atmosphere: Air around us
• climate: Typical weather conditions in a particular place
• contribute: To be a factor in causing something to happen
• combat: To fight someone or something physically
• blame: To say someone is responsible for something bad
• regular: Having an equal amount of space or time in between
• foundation: Base or important starting point
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• numerous: Existing in large numbers
• prey: To hunt (other animals) in order to eat them
• population: Number of people who live in a country, area etc.
• architecture: Design and construction of buildings
• rapidly: With great speed; quickly
• effect: An advantage, benefit
• dive: Restaurant, bar or club with a bad reputation
• ecosystem: Types of plants and animals in an specific area
• role: Character played by an actor
• participate: To take part with others in doing something
• leave: To go away from; depart
• mitigate: To make less severe or serious
• feast: Religious celebration
• combine: To mix several things together to form one thing
• pivotal: Having a lot of importance
• marine: Soldier trained to serve on land and sea
• carbon: Chemical element with an atomic number of 6
• transform: To change the shape completely in a good way
• explode: To express an emotion in a sudden and loud way
• support: To give assistance or advice to someone
• worldwide: Spanning or extending throughout the entire world
• volunteer: Working willingly without pay to help others
• chance: The way something happens without planning
• citizen: Person who belongs to and has rights in a country
• natural: Being as one would expect; being usual or normal
• momentous: Very important or serious
• last: Final; with nothing following; after all others
• conservation: Protecting the environment or a species
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• hibernation: (Of animals) spending a winter asleep or resting
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• return: To hit something back to the other player or team
• remove: To get rid of something completely
• cover: To record a different version of another song
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• nature: Person's character or particular way of behaving
• barren: (Of a woman) not able to have children
• regenerate: To form or create new things
• oasis: Place in a desert where there is water
• teem: To have many active living things moving inside
• kelp: Large brown seaweed with fluted leathery fronds
• urchin: Small sea animal with stiff parts like needles
• underwater: (Moving or existing) beneath the surface of water
• chomp: To chew noisily and strongly
• acidification: The process of becoming or converting into an acid
• shoreline: Boundary line between land and water
• heatwave: Period of very high temperatures