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44 Talk About It How is the insect in the photograph adapting to survive? How do you adapt to your surroundings? Find out more about adaptation at 45 Vocabulary shimmer climate eerie silken lurk lumbering swallows Context Clues by Marsha Adams Surrounding Words can often help you figure out the Another World meaning of unfamiliar words. Find shimmer in the story. In some ways, living in Alaska is like Use the other words in the living in another world. Winter lasts for sentence to figure out what about nine months. For more than two shimmer means. months each year, the northern lights that shimmer in the sky are the only source of light. For the people there, it can be eerie to go so long without seeing the sun. For the animals, it can be dangerous. Such dim light makes it diffi cult to see whether predators lurk in the shadows, waiting for their next meal. It may be a snowy owl that swoops down on silent wings and swallows its prey whole! 46 Vocabulary and Comprehension Winter Coats A Winter Nap Beaver