Glossary- camouflage
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Fish use their colors and body parts to blend in with things around them so they can hide from danger.
Can you find the fish? It is using its colors to blend in with its surroundings. The fish is using camouflage to hide itself.
- carnivores
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Animals that eat meat.
- cautious
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To be very careful to stay safe.
- dart
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To move quickly.
- gills
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A part of a fish's body that helps it breathe.
- habitat
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Where an animal lives.
- hatch
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When the baby fish breaks through its egg. It's how the baby fish opens its shell.
- herbivores
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Animals that eat plants.
- life cycle
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A life cycle covers the entire life of a living thing. It begins at birth or in an egg, the egg hatches or the baby grows up into an adult, has children or eggs, and dies. The children or offspring grows up and keeps going through this cycle or process.
- ocean floor
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The bottom of the ocean.
- omnivores
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Animals that eat both plants and meat.
- oxygen
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Air people and animals breathe.
- poisonous
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Harmful to eat. It could make you sick when you eat it.
- predators
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Animals that hunt and eat other animals.
- prey
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Animals that are hunted and eaten by other animals for food.
- scales
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A covering for a fish's body that helps it move through the water. It is also covered with slime.
- school
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A group of fish.
- sea anemone
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An animal that lives at the bottom of oceans. It looks like a plant.
- streams
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Water that runs down mountains, hills, and across land. Sometimes fish live in streams. Streams are much smaller than rivers.
- survive
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To live, even in dangerous places.
- vertebrate
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An animal that has a backbone.
