Saving the Peregrine Falcon

Open Court: Unit 5_Lesson 5

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S1: They’re ready to leave in their car to go there.

S2: If you enlarge the photograph, it will fit into that frame.

S3: Studies show that people should drink more water.

S4: Animals that are in danger of losing their habitat are put on the endangered species list.

Vocabulary

DDT: powerful poison that kills insects; it is restricted by law because of damaging environmental effects (pg. 536)

Many countries have strict laws about when and how to use DDT when fertilizing crops.

eyries (ey-ries): nests of birds of prey built in high places (pg. 5540) The eagles returned to their eyries to feed their young.

incubator (in-cu-ba-tor): heated container for hatching eggs (pg. 541)

The children ran to the incubator to see if the eggs had hatched over the weekend.

pip: first crack in an egg made by a hatching chick. (pg.

542) Three of the six eggs in the incubator showed a pip.crop: pouches in birds’ necks used to store food. (pg. 544)

The mother parakeet stuffed seed into her baby’s crop.

Spelling: Base Word Families

1. educable

2. educate

3. education

4. force

5. enforce

6. enforcement

7. know

8. knowledge

9. unknown

10. occupy

11. occupancy

12. occupational

13. relevance

14. irrelevant

15. relevant

16. danger

17. endangerment

18. endangered

19. extinct

20. extinction