The diagrams below show the life cycle of a species of large fish called the salmon.

The diagrams below show the life cycle of a species of large fish called the salmon.
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The flow chart illustrates the life cycle of salmon fish which is a kind of large fish.
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, their life cycle contains three main stages which are started by laying eggs and continued by their growth process and living in different parts of the
river
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and the open sea. At the first step,
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fishes lay under the small stones at the foot of the reeds in the upper
river
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where the flow of water is slow. These eggs remain there for approximately 5-6 months. After that, small salmons which are called fry hatch out and go to the lower portion of the
river
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with fast flow with different lengths from 3 to 8 cm. They have lived there for almost 4 years. At the following stage, Smolts which have a length of about 12 to 15 cm move to the sea, and during around 5 years of living in the open sea they become adult salmon with larger
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between 70-76 cm.
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this
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period they come back to the upper
river
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and lay new eggs.
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natural life cycle of salmons repeats over 10 years.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words river with synonyms.
Vocabulary: Rephrase the word "undefined" in your introduction.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • Life cycle
  • Spawning
  • Freshwater
  • Juvenile
  • Fry
  • Adaptation
  • Migration
  • Smolt
  • Rivers
  • Ocean
  • Challenge
  • Growth
  • Return journey
  • Hatching ground
  • Perilous
  • Upstream
  • Obstacle
  • Ecological impact
  • Preservation
  • Disturbance
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