Selection Vocabulary

Definition

*alert

watchful

*breaks

comes apart

*melt

turn 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