“A Message From Mother Nature?” Questions.

1. The main point of the article is all about global warming and what caused it, how the earth started to warming up, and some of it have destroyed everything.
2. Vocabulary:
a. Particularly: like it is special, in a detail way.
b. Negotiations: like someone and someone discuss and talk to each other.
c. Battered: hit or smash in something.
d. Perception: realize of something.
3. +Weather is what happened in a short period of time
+Climate is what happened for the long period of time, like a month or years.
4. +Dislocating millions of Americans and eventually changing the country’s population structure
+A large heat wave in Russia
+The world started to warm because of the greenhouse effect
+Eastern US may getting wetter
+There are some places that have snowmelt
+In US, wet area will become wetter, dry area will become drier.
5. The extreme weather is when Ho Chi Minh City got very hot. And I was always sweated; the temperature became hotter and warmer. I hate that time, I was angry in that time because of hot. That is the experience that I have with extreme weather.
6. Perception means when you or someone realize something
7. My perception about global climate change is we have to stop using cars and motorbike, instead of that; we can use the public transportation. So, we not use a lot of energy. Stop burning trees because fire made the earth warmer. That is what my perception about global climate change.

My Land's Story

Magic World (Mangae)

            Once upon a time, there was a strange continent named Mangae. It was a very big continent on a large body of water. A few years later, there was a lot of earthquakes and volcanoes so it changed the whole planet’s surface, and Mangae started to separate from each other.
             There were five countries, and five children to rule each kind of magic. After they grew up, they wanted to have their own country. According to that, they went and took a country. One ruled the “Water Magic”, one ruled the “Fire Magic”, one ruled the “Light Magic”, one ruled the “Dark Magic and the last one ruled the”King of Magic” country. The last one was the best to rule “King of Magic” country. In 940, they created an army using their magic to protect all the countries. However, after a while, they don’t trust each other anymore. So, they took their own army back and started to attack each other. After that, the war was created by five countries. The war was continued and was passed down for generations. Until 980, the war ended by the contract of five countries. The contract mentioned that every country will protect each other and help each other when one country gets into trouble. After the war, “Dark Magic” was the weakest country because they don’t have much energy source and don’t have a lot of army. When “King of Magic” country heard that, they knew that before them, all the countries sticked together like a continent. So, they have an evil plan that will conquer all of the Mangae. Then, in 990, “King of Magic” country breaks the rule in the contract and started to attack other four countries. Other four countries were surprised and terrified. However, they still have to attack and defend back if they want to live and keep peace for their countries. “Dark Magic” was loose in the attack and they had to move to “Light Magic” country for help. Even though they hated each other, they still figures out that they have to team up together to win this match. Then, they team up with water and fire magic. They have a plan to take back their country and destroyed the king of magic country. Finally, in 995, four countries attack “King of Magic” country at the same time. Even “King of Magic” country was the best, but they still not win if four powers attack on them at one. In 1000, the war ended and “King of Magic” country was destroyed.

            Everyone was in peace again. They were really happy; “King of Magic” country was source of energy for all four countries at that time. And it would help people to live better. So, all of this was the legend of Mangae!!!

5 themes of geography:

1. Absolute and Relative Location:
            +In my map and story, I have a lot of things to say. However, this time I have to talk about the five themes of geography. In my map, I have all five of them. First, I will talk about the “Absolute Location and Relative Location”. About the absolute location, I created my own longitude and latitude for my own map. It was not a hard thing, though. As in my way, the middle line was 0 degree, then, plus with other numbers that you like, and you skip one space. After that, you have your own latitude and longitude. About the relative location, at the very beginning of the story, all countries were one country named Mangae. But it is separated after a long time according to the planet’s surface. So, other countries were part of each other and it has a relation with each other.
2. Movement:
           +In this paragraph, I will talk about the second theme of geography. My story’s movement was when the “King of Magic” country attacked the other four countries. And “Dark Magic” was a weak country. So, they lost their country. They wanted to survive and revenge so they moved to the light magic. At first, they hated each other. But, they understand each other and get along well day after day. I don’t have much movement in my map and story.
3. Human/ Environment Interaction
+In this paragraph, I will talk about the third theme of geography. It was human/environment interaction. About this one, I only have few of them. So, the “Water Magic” needs water for their life, because water magic country’s people were made from water. So, that energy was their main source of energy. And they build their house near the river or water. It will help them a lot later on. So that was all about human/environment interaction.
4. Place:
             +In this paragraph, I will talk about the fourth theme of geography in my map. It was place (both man made and physical). I have some of them in my map. About what people made, I have a factory for each of the countries. So, they can make food and provide energy and house for people to live, and the energy absorbing machines for light and dark magic. About physical place in my map, I have volcanoes for fire magic to live and river for everybody to drink, because water magic needs a lot of water. Furthermore, I have mountains to make it look even more beautiful. Mountains are also a good source of energy. Those are all about places.
5. Region:
           +In this last paragraph, I will talk about the fifth (last) theme of geography in my map. It was region; I have some of them in my map. They were mountains, rivers, roads and other things. All five countries have them all. Because all of these countries were in the same continent, but now they are separated. Overall, they still have similar things like others. And all people in each country can all use magic. Those are all about five themes of geography.

Timeline:

• In 911, there was a continent named Mangae but now it was separated.
• In 922, there were five countries and five children.
• In 935, they grew up and took their own country.
• In 939, they named their country and made an army.
• In 943, they didn’t trust each other anymore.
• In 945, they took their own army and fought each other.
• In 950, five countries declared war.
• In 965, the war continued passed down for generations.
• In 980, the war ended and everyone was in peace.
• In 982, five countries made a peace contract.
• In 985, “King of Magic” country wanted to rule all of Mangae.
• In 990, “King of Magic” country attacked other 4 countries.
• In 995, “Dark Magic” country moved to “Light Magic” country.
• In 996, “Dark”, “Light”, “Fire” and “Water Magic” countries fought back for glory.
• In 1000, the war ended, “King of Magic” country was the source of energy.

Social Studies Study Guide.

5 themes of geography

• Location
• Place
• Region
• Movement
• Human/environment interaction

Ideas

• How to read maps?
• How to use tool of geographer?
• Similar and different between cultures
• What is geography?

Job of Geographer

• Cartographer - Map Maker
• Climatologist - The one who study about what is best time to build construction
• Land Surveyor - The one that survey the land
• Location Analyst - Find the best place for construction
• Urban Planner - Person that want to improve the place where he working

6 essential elements of geography

• Human System
• World of Spatial Term
• Places and Regions
• Environment and Society
• Physical System
• Uses of Geography

What I have learned during the process of this project?

            I think this project is a good project because it will let everybody and we know each other very well. During the process of the project, I asked very detailed about my family history and where we are from. I’m surprised that on my mother side, my grandmother was from a country side. I thought that my grandmother was a city person like my grandfather. And now I also know that there was a kind of food was “Banh Dua” that was my country side traditional food. And other people in our class have different cultures. I was interesting about Henry, because he achieved some awards that since he was young. I just saw it for the first time.
              And one more thing like my grandfather death and my paternal grandmother death were just between 2 years. And my maternal grandfather dead when my mom was just a young kid. And I also surprised about other people cultures, like their clothes and their food. That are all what I have learned during the process of this project.