Glossary
A
- agility
- - the ability to move easily
- avalanche
- - a mass of snow that slides down a mountainside
B
- band
- - an organized group
- billy (billies plural)
- - male goats
C
- concave
- - bent inward
- conserving
- - preventing loss
- continuously
- - for a long period of time
D
- diet
- - the food eaten
- disturbance
- - something that bothers or annoys
G
- guard hair
- - coarse outer hair
H
- habitat
- - the area where a plant or animal lives
- hibernate
- - sleeping through the winter
- hostile
- - not friendly or an enemy
I
- insulation
- - something that reduces the passage of hot and cold air
K
- kid (kids plural)
- - baby goats
M
- mating season
- - a period of the year when animals find partners
- migrate
- - to move seasonally
N
- nanny(nannies plural)
- - female goats
O
- occasionally
- - sometimes
- oreamnos americanus
- - scientific name for mountain goats meaning a mountain lamb belonging to America
P
- population
- - the number of a group
- predator
- - an animal that hunts and eats other animals
- protect
- - to guard or defend
R
- rank
- - the order of standing in a group, a rating
S
- stress
- - something that causes worry or strain
- suction cup
- - a cup shaped object that can stick to a surface by creating a vacuum inside
T
- terrain
- - land
- tree line
- - elevation on a mountain above which trees cannot grow
- trough
- - a ditch or long shaped depression
W
- wool
- - a type of hair that forms on some animals which is used to make clothing
