Vocabulary Lesson 12

Adjust

• When you adjust, you change your behavior to fit a new situation.

Residents

• Residents are the people or animals that live in a place.

Specimens

• Specimens are examples of things scientists collect in order to study.

Recoil

• To recoil means to jerk suddenly.

Pesky

• Something that is pesky is annoying but not important.

Internal

• Something that is internal is inside a person, an object, or a place.

Debris

• Debris is scattered pieces of something that has been destroyed.