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Article Vocabulary

  • Refugees – A person who flees their home for safety reasons.

  • Atolls – coral island that circles a lagoon

  • Lagoon – shallow body of water

  • submerged – completely under water

  • Unusable- cannot be used

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Article Vocabulary

  • Encroaching – moving in or approaching

  • Evacuated – removed from a place of danger

  • Global-warming – rise in average temperature of earths oceans and atmosphere

  • Low-lying – Places that are lower in elevation than nearby places.

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Article Vocabulary

  • Agriculture – science of farming, producing crops and raising livestock (animals)

  • coast – land near a shore (by the sea, ocean)

  • erosion – to destroy over time (to wear away)

  • potable – suitable for drinking