domingo, 9 de noviembre de 2008

READING CHALLENGE

Write five new words taken from the all reading challenge, look up their definitions or synonyms in a monolingual dictionary

READING CHALLENGE 1
MONKEY SEE, MONKEY RECOGNIZE

VOCABULARY:

SQUEAKING: to utter or make a short shrill cry or noise//to pass, succeed, or win by a narrow margin

BATNESS:
SELF-AWARE:
adj. Aware of oneself, including one's traits, feelings, and behaviors.
SURREPTITIOUSLY:adjective
1. obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine: a surreptitious glance.
2. acting in a stealthy way.
3. obtained by subreption; subreptitious.

SHAVING:noun
1. Often, shavings. a very thin piece or slice, esp. of wood.
2. the act of a person or thing that shaves.



READING CHALLENGE 2
VOLCANOLOGY

SCATTER:–verb (used with object)
1. to throw loosely about; distribute at irregular intervals: to scatter seeds.
2. to separate and drive off in various directions; disperse: to scatter a crowd.
3. Physics.
a. to refract or diffract (light or other electromagnetic radiation) irregularly so as to diffuse in many directions.
b. (of a medium) to diffuse or deflect (light or other wave phenomena) by collisions between the wave and particles of the medium.
–verb (used without object)
4. to separate and disperse; go in different directions.
–noun
5. the act of scattering.
6. something that is scattered.

SUNLIGHT:the light of the sun; sunshine.
ASH:Also called volcanic ash. Geology. finely pulverized lava thrown out by a volcano in eruption.
BOTTLENECK:

1.a narrow entrance or passageway.
2. a place or stage in a process at which progress is impeded.

NETWORKING: the design, establishment, or utilization of a computer network


READING CHALLENGE 3
MEDICINE
SHAM:something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
PLACEBO:a substance having no pharmacological effect but given merely to satisfy a patient who supposes it to be a medicine.
RELIEF:alleviation, ease, or deliverance through the removal of pain, distress, oppression, etc.
FAILURE:deterioration or decay, esp. of vigor, strength, etc.: The failure of her health made retirement necessary.
trial:subjection to suffering or grievous experiences; a distressed or painful state

READING CHALLENGE 4

HISTORY OF SCIENCE

READING CHALLENGE 5
READING CHALLENGE 6
READING CHALLENGE 7
READING CHALLENGE 8

WORLD PROBLEM AWARENESS

GARBAGE IN THE SEAS


the solid residues in the marine enviroment, source of many ecological problems, must light of the simplest and effective form: by means of the prevention

This problem includes all kinds of objects that don´t appear of natural form in the aquatic ecosystems. tailing or waste (objects produced or used by the man and reject later), the most frequent categories of marine garbage are plastic, glasses, rubbers, metals, paper, wood and fabric.The principal characteristic of these residues consists in that these float, and they move constant dragged by the marine currents and these degrade to a pace that it determines the time that the residue remains in the marine environment, more time remains the residue, in Mayor it´s the threat that this one supposes for the human beings, the wild life and the navigation. The most serious dangers that this problem carry for the wild life are the risk that the animals get entangled in the diferents tailing or that they consumer them.the wild life suffers serious damages like that.

one of the best solutions to reduce the quantity of residues in the marine environment is in the recycling, that is to say, in the withdrawal, separation for types (plastic, glasses and metals) and transformation of the materials rejected in order to use them again. the recycling has turned into a frequent practice; with everything it´s necessary to bear in mind that not all the materials can retrain.
- the exists another strategy better than the recycling: the putting in practice of measures directed to prevent the pollution to be able to reduce the quantity of tailing. some examples would be the repeated use of the same material, the employment of reusable objects instead of objects to use and throw and the limitation of the bundles that we consume.

-The marine garbage can generate numerous ecological problems in the whole world. numerous goverments and organizations deprived already have intervened; even this way, the individual initiative continues being the best way of attacking the pollution of the oceans. provided that the prevention seems to be the simplest and effective method of diminishing the residues in the sea, we should begin all for checking our ways of life, calculating how much garbage we generate and to imagine to where it´s going to stop.

possible solutions

POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
GARBAGE IN THE SEAS


- one of the best solutions to reduce the quantity of residues in the marine environment is in the recicling

- the exists another strategy better than the recycling: the putting in practice of measures directed to prevent the pollution to be able to reduce the quantity of tailing.

-The marine garbage can generate numerous ecological problems in the whole world. numerous goverments and organizations deprived already have intervened; even this way, the individual initiative continues being the best way of attacking the pollution of the oceans.

3 causes of the problem

GARBAGE IN THE SEAS

1.
This problem includes all kinds of objects that don´t appear of natural form in the aquatic ecosystems.
2.The principal characteristic of these residues consists in that these float, and they move constant dragged by the marine currents.

3. The most serious dangers that this problem carry for the wild life are the risk that the animals get entangled in the diferents tailing or that they consumer them.the wild life suffers srious demages like that.

GARBAGE IN THE SEAS

http://www.enjoy-patagonia.org/related-articles/cientific-garbage-dump-ships1.php