This Haiku Deck will help readers to gain an understanding of main ideas and key vocabulary that they will encounter while reading our assigned text "Under the Sea."

While it would be easy to assume that a coral reef is some sort of marine animal, it is actually a complex underwater ecosystem or a number of living organisms and their environment.

Science means a study based on observation and/or experimentation. A scientist is an individual who performs those observations or experiments as a means of study.

The prefix "sub-" means "under." The root "marine" means "of or relating to the sea." A submarine is "a ship that can travel independently underwater."

"Scuba" or scuba diving is the act of diving underwater using special equipment for breathing. It is viewed as both a sport and as a means of studying marine life.

A laboratory, or a lab, is a physical space, often a standalone room, where scientific research and reporting takes place.

A sea anemone may look like a plant, but it's actually an animal that lives in the sea and eats other sea animals. Sea animals, such as fish, that are unfortunate enough to swim among a sea anemone's tentacles are doomed to become its next meal.