A Message from Mother Nature

1. The main point of this article is if the weather is changing the climate or not.

2.

• Reluctant: Do not want to do something
• Dispute: An argument
• Skeptics: A person that is always suspicious about things
• Indicator: proofs

3. To me, weather means the condition of the atmosphere under a short period of time. Climate is the condition of atmosphere but under a long period of time.

4. There are many examples like the monsoon in Pakistan that caused flooding and killed more than 1,500 people. Record-breaking heat wave along with a record-breaking drought in Russia. Flooding batterd New England, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.

5. I truely have no experiences with an extreme weather.

6. Perception means to understand an issue.

7. I think the climate is changing because there are alot of extreme weathers occur over years. And it's caused by global warming.

Lolli-Gushers

Lolli-Gushers is a continent where the kids all over the world wanted to visit; there were candies in each country. It was started with a candy girl named Amiv. Amiv was so addicted to candies that her mom called her a 'candy girl'. In 2127, Amiv found a land and she named it after her. After that, Amiv called her three best friends to be the "three candy women" for the other three lands. They then formed as Gushers, Mimivism, and Lollipop. After more than ten years of living in peace, they had a conflict and it led to a war called "Lolli War". The reason it was called a "Lolli War" because people used lollipops and gummies as their weapons. The war lasted for twelve years and the people poorly destroyed the environment which caused a creature grew from the ground. It was Spicy Lollipop Man!

Lolli-Gushers was a very fantasy continent after all because there were lollipop rains which colorful lollipops fall from the sky all around the country. And there were also gum balls swimming along the Chocolate River. Amivism was located 40 degrees south and 20 degrees west. It was very creepy to live in Amivism because there was Spicy Lollilop Man living right beside it. Spicy Lollipop Man was very powerful, just a breath of his could blow half of the country away. One day, the people in Amivisim didn't clean the gum balls in the Chocolate River which made it stuck for days, and the people didn't have anything to drink so Spicy Lollipop Man got angry and he blew 2/3 of Amivism away in just a blink. 23,569 people were killed. After that crazy event, 10,000 people immigrated to Mimivism.

There was a big lollipop rain in 2171 and many lollipops flooded all around the four countries and they were flourished. People didn't need to work for food anymore because they used to go the woods for fruits. But from that time, people in Amivism, Gushers, and Mimivism stopped working and kept eating so they got fat and lazy. (The population of fat people was 24,000) Only the people Lollipop worked for fruits. They went to the woods day by day, and they stored many fruits for special occasions. The rest of people got lazy and they used automatically moving lollipops to trade for fruits with the people in Lollipop. When there was no more lollipops to eat, they realized that their chances of working were over because they were fat and they couldn't move around. Many people were starving for food and about 124, 649 people died from this event. Spicy Lollipop Man used to be very strict and mean but this time, he decided to be a hero to save Lolli-Gushers. For fourteen years, Spicy Lollipop Man finally invented diet pills to make people diet. The population of fat people descreased to 437, which was really great. They started working again for fruits, they started cleaning the Chocolate River so that it wouldn't stuck anymore.

There weren't any roads in Lolli-Gushers because people used automatically moving lollipops to trade. The moving lollipops were very fast because its speed is about 99,999 km/h, which is much faster than airplanes. Airplanes over here were considered as turtles.

In Lolli-Gushers, the people spoke ClikClik. It was a very complicated language because they didn't speak by mouth, but they used their feet to speak. One step stands for a, two steps stand for b, three steps stand for c, and so on. The people looked kind of weird when they tried to say something, because they had to dance like a monkey. But that was what unique about them.

What I Have Learned From The Family Tree Project

At first, I did not know why we had to do this project and present it to the whole class about our history, our culture and ourselves. But after all, I think this project is very helpful and I have learned many things from it.

First of all, when I was discussing with my parents about our history, I have learned that they were living in North Vietnam before they came to South Vietnam and their accents are mixed of the two. Also, they were poor back then but they worked extremely hard to earn money and I was born in a wealthy family so I am very proud to be their daughter. Secondly, I got to know that they are experts at tennis; they've won thirteen trophies in total from many tournaments, they play tennis for more than ten years and they're still playing it.

Not that I've only learned about my family history and my parents, but I have also learned about Korean culture. On New Year's Day in Korea, you have to bow to people when you see them. If i was a kid from five years old or older, you had to bow 45 degrees. If it was a ten-year-old or older, you had to bow 90 degrees. And If it was an adult from twenty years old or older, you had to bow 140 degrees. If you did not bow to them, they would say that your parents don't know how to teach you. I think it was an interesting presentation because I got to know more about Korean culture, it's also a big difference from Vietnamese culture and Korean culture.

This project is very helpful and I'm looking forward to more projects that help us learn more about different people and different cultures.

Study Guide

Study Guide

MAPS:

1. Physical – shows the physical features of the earth

2. Political – shows the countries

3. Thematic – shows different types of themes, including: resources, climate, road, economic, etc

5 THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY:

1. Location – where things exactly are based on the longitude & the latitude

2. Place – describing the physical & human characteristics of a location

3. Region – a bigger place with similar physical & human characteristics

4. Movement – how things (humans, ideas, goods) go from place to place across the planet

5. Human/Environment Interaction – how humans adapt to the environment & how the environment adapts to humans

6 ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS – HELP GEOGRAPHERS UNDERSTAND PEOPLE, PLACES, AND ENVIRONMENTS ON THE EARTH:

1. The world in spatial terms – by studying locations of places using maps, this helps geographers understand physical and human patterns

2. Places and regions – geographers look for characteristics of places and then compare their similarities and differences

3. Physical systems – geographers study changes in the Earths surface; where and why people choose to live in certain locations

4. Human systems – by studying human settlement patterns and use of resources, this helps geographers explain human interactions and lifestyles

5. Environment and society – geographers study how people interact with the environment and how they use resources

6. The uses of geography – by studying patterns and processes in the world, this helps people understand the past and plan for the future

HOW FORCES CONTINUALLY CHANGE EARTH’S SURFACE

WHAT IS CULTURE? :

1. History, tradition, religion, government, costumes, education, trade, environment, nature, everything around us, etc

VOCABULARY:

1. Geography – study of people, places, and environments

2. Environment – physical surroundings of a location

3. Location – where things exactly are based on the longitude & the latitude

4. Spatial – referring to where a place is located and its physical relationship to other places, people, or environments

5. Place – describing the physical and human characteristics of a location

6. Region – an area that has similar physical & human characteristics

7. Map – a representation of a part of the Earth

8. Globe – a model of the earth in the shape of a sphere

9. Surveyor – a person who measures the land

10. Remote sensing – obtaining information about a site by using an instrument that is not physically in contact with the site

11. Landsat – a series of information – gathering satellites that orbit above Earth

12. Global Positioning System (GPS) – a system that uses a network of Earth – obtaining satellites to pinpoint location

13. Geographic Information System (GIS) – a computer – or Internet – based mapping technology

14. Database – a collection of information that can be analyzed

15. Location analyst – a person who studies an area to find the best location for a client

16. Urban planner – a person who creates plans for developing and improving parts of a city

17. Climatologist – a geographer who studies climates

18. Geomorphology – the study of how the shape of the Earth changes

19. Cartographer – a geographer who creates maps

GEOGRAPHY’S JOBS:

1. Location analyst

2. Land surveyor

3. Urban planner

4. Climatologist

HOW TO READ A MAP? USING:

1. Compass, scale, legend, resources, elevation

TOOLS:

1. Global Positioning System (GPS) – a system that uses a network of Earth – obtaining satellites to pinpoint location

2. Geographic Information System (GIS) – a computer – or Internet – based mapping technology

3. Remote sensing – obtaining information about a site by using an instrument that is not physically in contact with the site

4. Map – a representation of a part of the Earth

5. Irrigation system