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VOCABULARY 1

This seahorse is an orange fish that’s
1 Listen and read. TR: 5.1 just 16 millimeters long. It's smaller

than a human's tooth and has a
2 Listen and repeat. TR: 5.2 long thin tail.

Habitat: warm water, near coral
We share our planet with
millions of small creatures: Characteristics: It uses camouflage.

cool spiders, beautiful striped It grabs food that floats by. Male
butterflies, ugly bugs, cute seahorses have babies.
hamsters, and fascinating fish.
Can you think of more little
creatures that live on Earth?

The male bee hummingbird is the
smallest bird in the world. It's about
51/2 centimeters long. The female
is bigger. Its eggs are smaller than
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coffee beans.

Habitat: near flowers
Characteristic: It can move its strong

wings eighty times a second.

3 Ask and answer. Work with a partner.

What did you learn?

Eyelash mites are 0.3 millimeters long. You can only see them through a
microscope. They look horrible, but they're very common. How big is the bee

Habitat: our eyelashes hummingbird? The male is 51/2
centimeters long.
Characteristics: These organisms eat dead skin cells. They crawl around The female is bigger.
our skin at night.

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