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What's the Difference Between Manta Rays and Stingrays?

Why did you select the article?

- I select this article because I like animals, I am interested in learning about them and their 

curiosities.

Did you find enough information in the article? Did you find the info you were looking for?

   - Of course, I had no idea that different types existed, I thought they were only differentiated by sizes.

What was the most interesting thing you learnt about it?

- The way they reproduce, the female can decide for eight years when it is the optimal time to fertilize, makes it very interesting and useful for survival

Make a list of 15 words from the article that you found difficult to understand. Find their meaning. Use one of these online dictionaries:

1. Appendage: The board is an appendage of the foundation, with fewer critical responsibilities.

2. Chimaeras: The chimera is a horrific monster that breathes fire

3. Either: Either you love me or you don't!

4. Wingspan: the distance between the ends of the wings of a bird, insect, or aircraft

5.  Stingrays: a large, flat, round fish with a long tail that has poisonous points on it  

6. Repeatedly: He called repeatedly, begging her to come back

7. Teeth: plural of tooth.

8.  Themselves:  used when the subject of the verb is "they" or a group of people, and the object is the same group of people:

-They asked themselves where they had gone wrong.

9.  Quickly: at a fast speed:

-We'll have to walk quickly to get there on time.

10. Behaviors: the way that someone behaves: Her behavior is often appalling.

11. Endangered: animals or plants that may son not exist because there are very few now alive

12. Entangle: to cause something to become caught in something such as a net or ropes:

-The dolphin had become entangled in/with the fishing nets.

13. Mottled : covered with areas of different colours that do not form a regular pattern:

-mottled skin

14.  Marbled: decorated with a delicate pattern consisting of lines and areas of colour:

-The church has an ornate black and white marbled interior.

15. Ray: to stay outside in the sun for a period of time: i´m going out to catch a few rays before lunch.