Vocabulary

• have to: Must do
• on the ground: Located on the surface of the earth.
• on the other hand : Considering a different aspect of the matter; alternatively.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• break down: To forcibly break, destroy or make collapse
• depending on: To rely on for support (financial or emotional)
• date back: To have existed since a particular time in the past.
• go over there: To move or travel to a specific location.
• of course: Sure ; Certainly
• around the world: In or to many countries.
• lay in: To provide stocks (e.g. for the winter)
• mess with: To interfere with or tamper with something.
• in tens: In groups or sets of ten.
• clear out: To empty things out of a place
• falls over: To fall on the ground from a standing position
• even once: At least one time; even a single time.
• without number: In very large or unlimited quantity; countless.
• as we know it: In the form or way commonly understood or accepted.
• next to: Being located along side another
• as anything: Used to emphasize intensity or degree of a quality or action.
• go back to: To return to a starting point
• were it not for: Used to say something would not happen without a particular condition.
• in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, disbelief
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• age: To keep food, wine for a long time to improve it
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• big: Popular
• plant: Factory or a place where things are made
• river: Flowing water that runs from mountains to the sea
• long: Person's name
• finding: To become aware of something that is happening
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• bottom: The part of your body you sit on
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• living: To be alive
• water: Clear liquid that forms the seas, rivers and rain
• animal: A living creature that is not a plant or person
• live: To be alive
• rock: To be greatly upset by something, e.g. a death
• dinosaur: Reptile that lived millions of years ago
• desert: To leave a place for ever; abandon
• record: Highest or most extreme level achieved
• history: Established pattern or record
• neck: Part of the body joining the head and the body
• lie: To be in a horizontal or flat position
• map: Diagram showing the geography of an area
• library: Place where books and other media are kept
• stand: To be a candidate in an election
• cover: To record a different version of another song
• wide: Having a great distance from one side to the other
• nature: Person's character or particular way of behaving
• field: Area of study, such as physics or biology
• science: Study of the physical world, based on facts
• bone: Hard piece of your body that holds your muscles
• planet: One of the bodies that orbit the sun
• giant: Tall, large, and powerful human-like creatures
• dug: To move material to create a hole
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• weigh: To balance things against each other
• magnificent: Splendid; brilliant; extremely good
• choice: Decision between two or more possibilities
• bury: To put something into the ground and cover it
• season: One of Spring, Summer, Autumn (Fall) and Winter
• impossible: (Child, etc.) very annoying
• environment: Natural world in which plants and animals live
• imaginable: Able to be imagined; possible
• unfolded: (Of a situation) to be told or revealed
• chance: The way something happens without planning
• fossil: Plant or animal that became rock after many years
• grave: Hole in the ground in which you place a dead body
• tail: Extended part at the back of an animal's body
• mass: Religious ceremony in some Christian churches
• vast: Being very large in size or amount
• territorial: Associated with the ownership of an area
• prospect: Opportunity or chance for success
• eventually: After a long time; after many attempts; in the end
• solar: Concerning the sun, or its heat
• occur: To come to pass or to happen
• layer: One of several sheets of a material or object
• surface: To give (road) a top layer
• reality: What is true, as opposed to what is imagined
• breeding: To create situations for a (bad) thing to happen
• expose: To make visible, without covering or protection
• formula: A mathematical or scientific rule
• inevitable: That must happen; certain to happen
• evolve: To develop certain features
• extinction: When every example of animal, plant is dead
• immense: Very great in size or amount
• rocky: (Of a marriage, etc.) involving many difficulties
• isolate: To identify, consider, or deal with separately
• illiterate: Having no knowledge of a particular subject
• erosion: Process of wearing away by water, wind, or ice
• mammal: Animal which drinks milk from its mother
• dread: To await with great fear
• geological: Concerning studies of the Earth's rocks and soil
• asteroid: Very small planets that move around the sun
• epoch: Specific period of history, e.g. a remarkable one
• femur: Bone that extends from the pelvis to the knee
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• ape: Animal related to monkeys and humans
• sentient: Having feelings and consciousness
• passively: So as to quietly accept what happens
• quarry: Large pit in the earth where stone is mined
• rhino: Large mammal with one or two horns on its nose
• igneous: Produced by the action of fire or intense heat
• unexplored: (Of a place) not yet discovered or investigated
• hippo: Short for 'hippopotamus'
• pasture: Area with grass that cattle, etc. feed on
• paleontologist: Person who studies and is an expert in fossils