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Life in the Future Vocabulary. Shining Star, Book A UNIT 6, Part 1. VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT. p. 225. artificial. Doctors sometimes use artificial hearts to replace diseased hearts. not natural; man-made. frontier.
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Life in the FutureVocabulary Shining Star, Book A UNIT 6, Part 1
VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT p. 225
artificial • Doctors sometimes use artificial hearts to replace diseased hearts. • not natural; man-made
frontier • Outer space is sometimes called a frontier because we know so little about it. • something we don’t know a lot about
mass produced • Cars are no longer made one at a time – they are mass produced. • made more than one at a time
population • The population of Earth will increase greatly. There will be billions more people in the next 100 years. • number of people
robots • Human beings won’t need to do dangerous work in the future because robots will do the work. • machines that imitate human behavior
traffic jams • Traffic jams are the result of too many cars on the road. • times when there are too many cars on the road
Life in the Future pp. 227 - 231
cured • healed; restored to health
elevators • machines in a building that carry people from one floor to another
steer • guide
magnets • pieces of iron that attract other pieces of iron
prototype • the first model
zip • move very fast
refueling • refilling with feul
galaxies • very large groups of stars
colonize • set up human communities
environment • the land, water, and air
oxygen • a gas in the air that all plants and animals need in order to live
poisonous • deadly
domes • round roofs