Diary of a Bacterium

I am only one cell big. I spend most of my time taking in nutrients and oxygen to make energy and have been caught many times reproducing in public. Some of my grandparents spend all of their time eating and reproducing on dead organisms. I on the other hand prefer to live in a warmer environment, like inside the body of sniffling teenage students. This is very risky because teenagers often cheat when at war with me by using antibiotics to kill me. This is chemical warfare and it is wrong.

Vocabulary:

Eating: (Verb) to chew and swallow

Dead: (Adjective) not alive

Warmer: (Adjective) more heat

Environment: (Noun) surroundings

Sniffling: (Verb) to sniff repeatedly

Risky: (Adjective) dangerous

War: (Noun) fight

Antibiotics: (Noun) medicine that kills bacteria

Close Exercise:

1. Antibiotics are made to kill ______________________.
2. Bacteria use __________________ and ___________________ to create energy.
3. If you are sniffling then you are probably __________________.
4. There is a ________________ between the U.S. and Iraq.
5. Your body becomes _______________________ when you use a jacket or coat.
6. If you are sick you may need to see a _____________________.
7. If someone is ___________________ they can’t move anymore.
8. If you __________________ bad food you will get sick.
9. The opposite of the word “warmer” is the word “________________”.
10. War can cause a large amount of ___________________.

Additional Exercise:

1. Summarize the paragraph in 3 to 4 sentences.
2. You must use 4 out of the 8 vocabulary words.