Vocabulary Review: Unit 6 and Natural World

This flashcard set covers vocabulary from Word Unit 6 regarding arts and media, as well as terminology related to natural disasters and environmental conditions.

Announced

Made a public and typically formal declaration about a fact, occurrence, or intention.

Architecture

The art or practice of designing and constructing buildings.

Argue for

To give reasons for or speak in favor of something.

Auction

A public sale in which goods or property are sold to the highest bidder.

Bricks

Rectangular blocks of clay used in building.

Ceramic art

Art made from ceramic materials, including clay.

Considered

Thought about carefully.

Controversial

Giving rise or likely to give rise to public disagreement.

Creative

Relating to or involving the imagination or original ideas.

Design

A plan or drawing produced to show the look and function of a building, garment, or other object.

Display

A collection of objects arranged for public viewing.

Effect

A change which is a result or consequence of an action or other cause.

Exhibition

A public display of works of art or items of interest.

Expected

Regarded as likely to happen.

Fashion

A popular trend, especially in styles of dress and ornament or manners of behavior.

Gallery

A room or building for the display or sale of works of art.

Genius

Exceptional intellectual or creative power or other natural ability.

Government

The governing body of a nation, state, or community.

Headlines

The titles of newspaper articles printed in large letters.

Illustration

A decoration, interpretation, or visual explanation of a text, concept, or process.

Inspire

Fill someone with the urge or ability to do or feel something, especially to do something creative.

Installation

An art exhibit often created for a specific space.

Investment

The action or process of investing money for profit or material result.

Lack of st

The state of being without or not having enough of something.

Literature

Written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit.

Movie

A story or event recorded by a camera as a set of moving images.

Music

Vocal or instrumental sounds combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.

Opinion

A view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.

Painting

The action or skill of using paint, either in a picture or as decoration.

Photography

The art or practice of taking and processing photographs.

Pile

A heap of things laid or lying one on top of another.

Portaits

A painting, drawing, photograph, or engraving of a person, especially one depicting only the face or head and shoulders.

Previous

Existing or occurring before in time or order.

Sculpture

The art of making two- or three-dimensional representative or abstract forms, especially by carving stone or wood.

Spring

The season after winter and before summer, in which vegetation begins to appear.

Unique

Being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else.

Waste

An act or instance of using or expending something carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose.

After

In the time following an event or another period of time.

Alive

Of a person, animal, or plant that is living and not dead.

Avalanche

A mass of snow, ice, and rocks falling rapidly down a mountainside.

Characteristics

A feature or quality belonging typically to a person, place, or thing and serving to identify it.

Comet

A celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust and, when near the sun, a tail of gas and dust particles.

Conditions

The state of something, especially with regard to its appearance, quality, or working order.

Disaster

A sudden accident or a natural catastrophe that causes great damage or loss of life.

Discovery

The action or process of discovering or being discovered.

Drought

A prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water.

During

Throughout the course or duration of a period of time.

Earthquake

A sudden and violent shaking of the ground as a result of movements within the earth's crust.

Eruption

An act or instance of erupting, especially the sudden discharge of steam, ash, or lava from a volcano.

Event

A thing that happens, especially one of importance.

Extinct

Of a species, family, or other larger group having no living members.

Fire

A process in which substances combine chemically with oxygen from the air and give out bright light, heat, and smoke.

Flood

An overflowing of a large amount of water beyond its normal confines over what is normally dry land.

For

Used as a function word to indicate purpose or intended destination.

Fossils

The remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form or as a mold or cast in rock.

From

Indicating the point in space at which a journey, motion, or action starts.

Hero

A person who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities.

Hope

A feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.

Hurricane

A storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean.

Inside

The inner side or surface of something.

Kind

A group of people or things having similar characteristics.

Landslide

The sliding down of a mass of earth or rock from a mountain or cliff.

Meditate

Think deeply or focus one's mind for a period of time, in silence or for relaxation.

Natural disaster

A natural event such as a flood, earthquake, or hurricane that causes great damage or loss of life.

On

Physically in contact with and supported by a surface.

Raise the alarm

To make people realize that a dangerous situation exists.

Relationship

The way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected.

Rescue

An act of saving or being saved from danger or distress.

Scientist

A person who is studying or has expert knowledge of one or more of the natural or physical sciences.

Species

A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes.

Squid

An elongated, fast-swimming cephalopod mollusk with ten arms.

Suggest

Put forward for consideration.

Survive

Continue to live or exist, especially in spite of danger or hardship.

Terror

Extreme fear.

Threat

A statement of an intention to inflict pain, injury, damage, or other hostile action on someone.

Trapped

Caught or retained in or as if in a trap.

Unknown

Not known or familiar.

Volunteers

People who freely offer to take part in an enterprise or undertake a task.

Wildfire

A large, destructive fire that spreads quickly over woodland or brush.

wish

Feel or express a strong desire or hope for something that is not easily attainable.

With

Accompanied by another person or thing.

Worried

Anxious or troubled about actual or potential problems.