Monday, 31 October 2016

Reading

1. The focus of this article is on scientific classification. Who is the person that is referenced with this term?
- Carl Linnaeus 

2. How does the information on pg.4 fit with the rest of the article?
- Because the tdis helps the scientists and they need it to find creatures and stuff.

3. Do we need to understand about the Deep Towed Imaging System works to understand about classifying species? Why or why not?
- Because they are important to find new creatures and look whats in the ocean.

4. How do the paragraph and photos on pg. 4 add interest to this article?
-  They are interesting and they make you want to read it which is good because it is important

5. Choose 4 of these scientific words. Copy the sentence they are in and explain their meaning/definition; retract, brittle, transmitting, taxonomist,  pectoral, organisms, subantarctic.
 transmitting, cause (something) to pass on from one person or place to another.
- organisms, an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
- taxonomist, a taxonomist is a biologist that groups organisms into categories.
- subantarctic, The Subantarctic is a region in the southern hemisphere, located immediately north of the Antarctic region



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