New vocab words

Unequaled

Brisk

Wrath

Subtle

Adversity

Vocab words pg 229 1-5

1. List the main reasons for water scarcity

One of the main reason is low rainfall. Land degradation because then the water cannot infiltrate into the ground.

2. What is a drought? What type of hardships do you think that a drought could cause if you were living in a village in a poor country such as Ethiopia.

A drought is like there is barely any water and the air is not so moist. Living in Ethiopia while there is a drought must suck since Ethiopia does not have much water to begin with.

3.How does land degradation affect the supply of fresh water?

Because the water that rains cannot get into the ground so it cannot store fresh water.


4.(a)What is El nino? (b)Why does El Nino often cause drought in Australia?
El nino is the air getting warmer of the coast of Peru. It makes australia have droughts since all the moist wind that makes Australia moist gets blown away therefore causing it to have droughts.

5. (a)Observe the map showing the global effects of El Nino have on the availability of fresh water.
(b)Name the countries and describe the problems that arose from decreased rainfall caused by El Nino.

Australia, Wheat exports threatened by drought conditions across grain growing areas,particularly in new south whales. Papua new guinea, Drought related failure of food crops,leading to famine conditions requiring food aid. Peru, Flooding, Fishing operators affected by lower catch as anchovy and pacific sardine move offshore to escape warm currents(5 C above normal temperature). Colombia, Fishing operators affected by lower catch (down 20%). United states, Rainfall above normal in north western states(double the historical averages). Philippines, Lower rice harvest following drought. China, Agricultural land under threat from drought in northern regions and flooding in southern regions. Indonesia, High air pollution levels, following forest fires. Africa, Reduced corn crop in sub saharan region.

My movie poem

My poem is about this melon head who wished he was dead. I picked this poem because it was kind of wierd and I was interested. The poem is really short though. By the way the first twelve seconds is just your text here so skip that part.

Personal narrative. First day of school

The car came up the slope to my old school. The moment we came out of the car I started crying. I didn’t want to go to school since I was only 3 years old. We walked up the front door and my teacher greeted me. At that moment I tried running back to the car. But my mom held me and my teacher said hello to me. We went inside and I got in my classroom and started crying. I stopped crying though after I found out my mom was going to stay with me on my first day in school. I felt safe for a while until my mom left.

I started crying really hard and the teacher tried calming me down. I started moving in my chair and shaking with fear. Suddenly the chair began tilting back slowly. I didn’t notice what was happening until it was too late. The chair was falling. The chair finally fell and it fell so fast I went into shock. Next thing I knew I wasn’t in my seat anymore and my butt started feeling really painful. I cried really loudly but then my mom came back and managed to calm me down. After the whole mess we had nap time. Finally I went home really happy to be out of that horrible place.

New vocab.

Martyred= To give up your life for something

Brazier= Some pot where you heat stuff.

Scouring= Look for something really hard.

pledge= A promise that is really strong.

Rowdies= People that are doing things that are annoying.

Putrefy= A really fetid smell from something thats rotting.

Ressurected= Something that like comes back to life or back to doing something.

Preposterous= Something way out there or has nothing to do with anything.

There is a really fetid smell in the air.
I saw a corrugated roof in Africa.
Antarctica is so desolate its far away from anything.
Please give the vial to us.
What does frivolous mean anyway?
I was gagging on my steak.
Sometimes I start frothing in my mouth.
Lord Voldemort is the most nefarious character in the harry potter books.
Stealing is intolerable just about everywhere.

I and me

1.Daniel and I like cheese.
2.Jon and I went to the US.
3.My friends and I went to the mall .
4.Stinky is what describes me and my friends.
5.Green level problems are easy for me and my friends.
6.He is talking about me and my friends.

characterization on Marvin and Ford

Today I am going to tell you about the characters Marvin and Ford. 2 characters created by Douglas Adams.

First I am going to tell you how Douglas Adams characterize marvin. Marvin is a robot who seems to have a problem. He is always depressed. Like in page 130 Arthur said that its an electronic sulking machine.

He also seems to hate everything. Like when the two suns were setting Arthur said it was amazing but Marvin said. I have seen it. Its horrible. This shows that marvin is a really negative and depressed type of character.

Now I am going to tell you how Douglas Adams characterize Ford. Ford is an alien that seems to be interested in new technology. Like in page 73 ford was getting really excited and in page 80 he was saying things like wow.

And that is my characterization.

Favorite author

My favorite author is named Drew karpyshyn. He wrote some of my favorite books like mass effect revelation. He was born in july 28 1971 in edmenton alberta canada. In college he decided he would become a writer and got a masters degree in english He has a wife named Jennifer and a cat named roxy whom he lived with for nine years in sherwood park. But in spring 2009 they moved to austin texas because they sort of got sick of the cold. In his free time he plays the magic card game and plays golf which he is not really good at. Apart from being a writer he also writes storys for video games and is a scriptwriter. Currently he's just relaxing at home. He started writing books in spring 2000 when he saw an ad about recruiting authors.