A Message From Mother Nature - Questions

1. What is the main point of this article?
- This main point is how global warming effects the earth and human lives. 


2. List four vocabulary words that you do not recognize or understand, lookup the definitions, write them out using your own words.
- Monsoon: Wind that flow with seasons from place to place.
- Drought: a period of dry weather
- Torrential: violent or vehement.
- Acres: extensive landed, especially in the country.
 
3. What is the difference between “weather” and “climate”?
- Weather is short terms of variation and day to day of the atmosphere. Weather is the combination of temperature, humidity, precipitation, and wind.
- Climate is the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time.

4. What are the examples listed in the article of “extreme weather”? 
- In the United States, flooding battered New England, then Tennessee, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, while a record-breaking heat wave baked the entire eastern part of the country.
- In Russia, a record-breaking heat wave along with a record-breaking drought destroyed millions of acres of wheat and sparked wildfires that killed dozens.
- Over the past few months, it feels 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.

5. What experiences have you had with “extreme weather”? 
-I remember that there was a flood in Vietnam but i don't know exactly where it was. It's also a large rain and it's in the middle part of Vietnam. A lot of people died also they needed some boats to help them go away from water, the sea levels was go up and all the trees felt down and hit a lot of houses.

6. What does the word “perception” mean? 
- Perception means a way of conceiving something.

7. What is your “perception” of global climate change?
- In my opinion, if the global warming keeps heating up, the earth will get in DANGER and that effect human lives. If the climate change, it means it will have a lot of damage to the environment. If you want back your friendly planet, so you need to recycle everything that you can. If you don't do it now, you won't have any chances to save your friendly planet. GO AND HELP UR FRIENDLY PLANET OR WHAT EVER YOU CALL IT !!