Vocabulary PowerPoint Antarctic Journal: Four Months at the Bottom of the World By: Jennifer Owings Dewey
display The natural world is full of glorious scenes, such as the display of wildlife.
Display - show
alert These animals are alert. They are wide awake and ready to take action.
Alert - aware
standards By these polar bears’ standards, or ways of measuring, cold air might be comfortable.
Standards – levels used to compare
vision Artists can have a vision, or mental image, of how to paint a scene from nature.
Vision – a mental image of what something could be like
Huddle Baby goslings often huddle, or crowd, together to stay warm while they nap.
Huddle – crowd together
Weariness This bird can fly many miles. It may get tired, but it isn’t stopped by its weariness.
Weariness - tiredness
Fractured In Antarctic, chunks of fractured, or broken, ice float through the icy sea.
Fractured - broken
Graceful The delicate design of a spider’s web is graceful and pleasing to see.
Graceful - elegant
Stranded This fawn may seem stranded, or left helpless. Its mother is nearby, though.
Stranded – left helpless
Concluded Many people have concluded, or decided, that nature is full of beauty.
Concluded – formed an opinion