Danger - IcebergVocabulary
alert - watchful
breaks - comes apart
melt - turns from a solid into a liquid by heating
ocean - a great body of salt water that covers almost three-fourths of Earth's surface
thousands - ten hundreds
glacier - a large mass of ice formed from snow on high ground
iceberg - a large mass of ice floating in the sea
ice pack - a large area of ice floating in the sea
lifeboats - strong open boats with oars, specially built for saving lives at sea
Titanic - large ship thought to be unsinkable that sank on its maiden voyage when it struck an iceberg
Exercises
Fill the blanks
It´s my job to look out for icebergs.
I have to be ____________ because icebergs could hurt our ship.
An iceberg can be _________________ of feet long before it ______________ into smaller pieces.
All icebergs _____________________ , but melting can take a long time.
If our ship hits one of the big icebergs, it could sink into the ___________________.
Everyone on the ship depends on me.
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