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Icefish
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Reading Level

	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 6 to 8
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	8.02

Vocabulary

challenging words:

white-blooded, insufficient, adaptation, icefish, ingenious, covering, relatively, southernmost, environment, extremely, year-round, natural, subzero, result, produce, lower

Other Languages
     Spanish: El Pez de Hielo

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Icefish By Vickie Chao

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¹     In the freezing waters surrounding Antarctica, there lives a bizarre fish family called the icefish.
 
²     The icefish family has 16 members. They can grow up to 2 feet long and weigh 8 pounds. They devour fish, krill, and other crustaceans. Icefish have long snouts, wide mouths, and large teeth. They are also known as white-blooded fish or crocodile icefish.
 
³     Icefish are unique because they don't have red blood cells in their bodies. As a result, they look rather pale, and their blood carries much less oxygen than that of fish with red blood cells. The pasty appearance is not a pressing matter. But the insufficient supply of oxygen is. To solve the problem, icefish have big, strong hearts to pump large volumes of blood at low pressures.

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Animal Themes

Animal Themes

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Fish

Fish

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Polar Regions

Polar Regions

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