Reading About Wildlife

Gabriel Gonzalez

Fur: (pelaje): Fur is a thick growth of hair that covers the skin of many animals.

Food chains: (cadena alimenticia): A food chain shows how each

living thing gets food, and how nutrients and energy are passed from
creature to creature. Food chains begin with plant-life, and end with
animal-life. Some animals eat plants, some animals eat other animals.
A simple food chain could start with grass, which is eaten by rabbits.

Pathway: (ruta) : A pathway is a trail or other walkway. Hikers often follow a well-worn
pathway as they walk through the woods

Toll: (peaje): a payment or fee exacted by the state, the local authorities, etc., for
some right or privilege, as for passage along a road or over a bridge. the extent of
loss, damage, suffering, etc., resulting from some action or calamity: The toll was 300
persons dead or missing.

Otters: (nutria): a semiaquatic fish-eating mammal of the weasel

family, with an elongated body, dense fur, and webbed feet.

Apex: (apendice): the top or highest part of something, especially one

forming a point.
 
Lingering: (constant): lasting for a long time or slow to end.

Urchins: (pilluelo): a mischievous young child, especially one who is

poorly or raggedly dressed

Trophic cascades: (cascada trofica) : Trophic cascades are powerful indirect

interactions that can control entire ecosystems. Trophic cascades occur when
predators limit the density and/or behavior of their prey and thereby enhance survival
of the next lower trophic level.

Settler: (colonizador) A settler is a person who has migrated to an area and

established a permanent residence there, often to colonize the area. It is also used to
describe people whose ancestors migrated to a new area, or who were born into an
already established settler colony.