Homework's-questions (Article)

1. What is the main point of this article?
-I think the main point of this article is how the global warming damage the environment. That will effect our lives.
2. List four vocabulary words that you do not recognize or understand, lookup the definitions, write them out using your own words.
4 vocabulary words:
-Drought: a shortage of rainfall
- Variation: different, to be adapt
-Monsoon: any wind that changes direction with the seasons
-Skeptics: to be doubt, unbelief

3. What is the difference between “weather” and “climate”?
-Weather:is the day-to-day state of the atmosphere, and its short-term (minutes to weeks) variation. Popularly, weather is thought of as the combination of temperature, humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, visibility, and wind. We talk about the weather in terms of "What will it be like today?", "How hot is it right now?"


-Climate:is defined as statistical weather information that describes the variation of weather at a given place for a specified interval. In popular usage, it represents the synthesis of weather; more formally it is the weather of a locality averaged over some period (usually 30 years) plus statistics of weather extremes.


4. What are the examples listed in the article of “extreme weather”?
-Over the past few months, it feel like it's been one weather extreme after another. Torrential monsoon rains in Pakistan caused the worst flooding in decades, killing more than 1,500 people and uprooting millions.
-In Russia a, recording braking heat wave along with drought destroying millions of acres of wheat and killed dozens.
In the United States, there is a flooding battered from New England,then Tennessee,Arkansas, and Oklahoma, while record-breaking heat wave baked the entire eastern part of US.


5. What experiences have you had with “extreme weather”?
I have a experience about it.I remember it a flooding and a large rain or storm in a middle part of Vietnam. Like Da Nang, many people died and lost of their home. Trees are hitting a house. Water are everywhere, they have to use small boat to evacuated. Sea levels rise that time and also a hurricane.


6. What does the word “perception” mean?
-Becoming aware of something via the senses, understood about something, notice...


7. What is your “perception” of global climate change?

-In my opinion and my knowledge, Climate change and global warming cause a lot of damage to the environment and also effect our human lives. Human live in this planet cannot protect and manage this earth so bad. NOw we have to safe or help this green world, do anything that you can. Give back life to the lovely planet. We still have a chance to start over again, if we can't do it someday you will not have a chance to regret it. It's too late. If you can't recycle or anything you are helping the earth. Try your best to do it. Come on, this world needs us!!! Make the planet green.