Island of the Blue Dolphin, Ch. 11-21
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.
1.
a
c
e
t
o
r
Someone from whom you are descended (plural)
2.
c
a
c
s
s
The dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food
3.
p
e
i
c
a
Large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish
4.
o
c
o
u
s
Bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles
5.
c
o
c
i
n
g
To bend one's back forward from the waist on down
6.
g
a
t
e
r
g
A group of persons together in one place
7.
t
a
m
g
To adapt to the environment
8.
f
l
o
a
n
The act of someone who ___ on the water
9.
t
r
t
t
i
To run at a moderately swift pace
10.
r
s
p
i
n
Understanding with difficulty
11.
w
i
m
m
g
Moving through water using your arms and legs
12.
o
d
r
i
n
g
To have a wish or desire to know something
13.
a
r
b
r
A sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo
14.
o
c
a
Huge body of salt water
15.
k
e
l
Large brown seaweeds having fluted leathery fronds
16.
s
a
n
d
d
e
A ridge of ___ created by the wind (plural)
17.
h
a
l
Any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole
18.
i
e
w
A cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment
19.
w
e
a
p
n
Any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting (plural)
20.
r
v
i
n
A deep narrow steep-sided valley