Thursday, November 26, 2009

Breaking Dawn

Breaking Dawn was written by Stephine Myer. I give the book a definite 5 stars.

*****

My Favorite parts in the book were the fabulous ending to the sequel, the middle when they were getting ready for the Volturi to attack and when Reenesme was born. The twilight saga was fantastic and the order of my favorite books best to worse is Breaking Dawn, Eclipse, New Moon and then Twilight.

As i have said in all my post on Twilight or Stephine Myer she is an amazing writer and there is no doubt i will read the saga again and again. I absolutely love her books and was so sad to finish breaking dawn cause the series is over.

It took me 2 months to read breaking dawn but i kept stopping and staring again and again so it took longer than i would have liked.


The Twilight saga is the second best saga i have read behind The hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Why is freash water scarce

Why is fresh water scarce?


1. List the main reasons for water is sacristy?


Drought

Global Warming

Natural Climate

Polution


2. a)What is a drought?

b)What type of hardship 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 a shortage of rain fall.


Crops would fail grouth because of no water and consequently people ethier have a) No Food to feed themselves and there family or b) No food to sell to get money to buy food and other needs.





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


Degradation is when a company or person builds a mall, car parks, Houses, Paths and other buildings this affects infiltration into the aquifer which holds fresh water.




4. (a) What is El Nino?




(b) Why does El Nino often cause drought in Australia?


El Nino is the weather patten created by oscillation of the Pacific ocean. In Australia there's a droughts because at that time the sea temperatures in the Eastern pacific off the coast of South America warm up and that happens every few years.




5. Observe the map showing the global effects of El Ninio in 1982-83.


It contains information when El Nino hit Africa, China, USA, Colombia, Peru, Aussie, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Philippines.







(a) What affects does El Nino have on the availability of fresh water?


An El Nino in Australia is caused by a raising of the ocean surface temperature in the western Pacific Ocean of the coast of South America. When this occurs it causes droughts in Australia. And in South America too much rain falls and floods occur. Floods turn fresh water into dirty non potable water.


(b) Name the countries and describe the problems that arose from decreased rainfall caused by El Nino.


Australia - Drought

Indonesia- Drought

Papua New Guinea - Drought





A photo of Australia in the drought today!

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Poem



My Poem i created about Jakatra.....

Monday, November 16, 2009

Trip to Bintaro Lama

Bintaro Lama was very interesting, educational and Fun. We all learned a lot of things about how to clean water and how important water is. In the village it was very dirty and so was there water. There were 6 stations and in those stations we learned how to clean water. We went to only 3 of the 6 but still learned a lot.
My first station was Ceramic filter a PuR. The Ceramic filter was a big water tank with a ceramic pot in the plastic tank. The people poured dirty water into the filter and then waited 6 hours for the water to filter thorough the ceramic pot.
PuR came in little sachets. You had dirty water in a plastic jug and wrapped a clean towel around the top of the jug. The you had another jug that you poured the cleaner water into. Use the clean towel would get rid of small things like dirt and bugs. After you drain the water from the first jug you open the PuR and stir it into the water. Use another clean towel and pour the water into a glass and it ready to drink.









Second Station was Aqua tabs and Air Rahmat.
Auqua Tabs were placed into a jug filled with 5 liters of water and stirred in for 5 minutes. Aqua Tabs are little tablets that clean water and cost 1000 Rp. a tablet. Air Rahmat is a small bottle of liquid. To use Air Rahmat you have a jug of water filled to 10 liters and then you pour 5 drops of Air Rahmat and then shake 30 times in a row.
Put a clean towel over the lid and pour into a glass and its ready to drink.

Third Station was teaching kids to wash there hands and how important it is.
They told us tat they created a song about washing their hands before serving food, After using the bathroom, before eating food and after touching animals.
At the end of all the stations the kids sang the song they created.












We all had fun and learned a whole lot about cleaning water. It was hot, sticky, smell, dirty but it was definitely FUN!

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Water Cycle

These are some pictures and captions about the water cycle.




This is a full diagram of The rain cycle it explians how it rins,how water gets intothe clouds.












This shows you that the precupitaion in the sky falls down as rain on to the ground and mkes dams, rivers and so on.















This Pic shows the precipataion ( rain ) falling and landing on the ground then that water runs into drains and goes into our oceans.



This is a diagram of Precipataion and the water cycle.