A Message From Mother Nature?

What is the main point of this article?
The main point of this article is that scientists prefer calling the Earth changing climate change instead of the term global warming because it's not just the Earth getting warmer.

List four vocabulary words that you do not recognize or understand, lookup the definitions, write them out using your own words.
reluctant - not wanting to do something
skeptics - to suspicious something
contending - to argue or to fight
arid - really dry and bad land

What is the difference between “weather” and “climate”?
Weather is how the region is like for a short time and climate is how the region is like for a very long period of time.

What are the examples listed in the article of “extreme weather”?
- Flooding in Pakistan
- Heat wave brings drought and destroy many forests and grassland.
- Flooding in New England, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma
- Extremely hot areas in Eastern USA.

What experiences have you had with “extreme weather”?
I have never experience weather, even though I seen rain storms in Saigon a lot, and I experienced 10 inch flooding.

What does the word “perception” mean?
Perception is how you see something in your point of view.

What is your “perception” of global climate change?
My perception is that we cannot redo what we have done, but we can fix our mistakes by slowing the process of destroying our home down.

History of M&M Island

A long time ago, in the year of 2010, the United States of America created the biggest blue M&M in the world. The whole world was amazed; people from around the world came together and ate the M&M. Five years later, the president of the United State decided to throw the M&M down the sea because it began to rot and the population were quickly decreasing because of obesity.

2020 was the year that it all began, radiation from factories were thrown out the sea and it created a sea monster called Ery that liked to eat M&M and it also made pieces of M&M came alive. 2025, the M&M pieces started to scatter all around the island, they settle down into lands that they discovered. This movement was the first improvement of the M&M Island history. In 2089, when all the lands were discovered, the government of the M&M Island separated the island into four territories. Five years later, this island was divided into four countries: Blue, Red, Yellow, and Brown. These names were based on the color of the mountains that they made in that same year. They also made a chocolate river to eat and drink.

In 2107, these four countries fell into a crisis; they used almost all the resources that they made. The government of each country wanted to take resources from other countries. One year later, the war began; Blue made its first move and relocated their capital city to a new location near the 43 degrees longitude and 45 degrees latitude. Blue attacked Brown. When the war was occurring, many citizens of each country mostly Blue, moved into places like the mountains, the villages, even some migrated to another country just to find shelter to hide from the war.

Blue was struggling because the Ey monster ate 25 percent of their territory. Very few villagers survived and moved away from the coastal regions. One year after the big lost of land caused by Ery, Red decided to cooperate with other countries and took over Blue. Blue territory fell after two years of fighting back.

The other three countries decided to split Blue so that they can have an equal amount of land. They decided to eat their ancestor’s diet again; which was sugar from sugar canes. There were still many Blue survivors that were fighting against the other three countries for their land and their honor because they were the first M&Ms to walk on the M&M Island.

Study Guide for Chapter 1

THEMES AND ELEMENTS OF GEOGRAPHY

• Geography:

Ø The study of people, places, and environments

• Types of Map:

Ø Political Map

Ø Physical Map

Ø Thematic Map: Resources

Climate

Economic

Agriculture …

• 5 these of Geography:

Ø Location

Ø Place

Ø Regions

Ø Movement

Ø Human-Environment Interaction

• 6 Essential Elements:

Ø The world in spatial terms

Ø Places and regions

Ø Physical systems

Ø Human systems

Ø Environment and society

Ø The uses of geography

What I learned about my classmates...

I found out a lot of interesting facts about my classmates. I was amazed by how much classmates are half Chinese half Vietnamese because their origins are from China. Although most of them forgot their Chinese.

I also think it’s pretty cool that one of our classmate’s ancestor is a famous Vietnamese general, Nguyễn Trãi. She had a very antique book about the family tree. She said that she stopped the family tree because she is a girl, unless her parents have another boy than the tree can keep on growing.