Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Article Answers

1) The climate is changing, because of the humans and it effects the Earth's living things.
2)reluctant - unwilling to do something
   variation - the changing of something
   vulnerable - weakness
   negotiation - to discuss about something
3) weather - the atmosphere over a short period of time
    climate - the atmosphere over a long period of time
4) Pakistan got flooded for decades and killed more than 1,500 people
    A drought in Russia that destroyed lots of plants
    New England, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Oklahoma got flooded
5) No, I didn't experience any of it
6)perception means to realize about something
7) At first, I didn't care about the climate change, but after I read the news then I think it's really important and I'm trying to help the world.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Hearts Land

Hearts Land
     The 5 Themes of Geography are place, region, location, movement, and human – environment interaction. The first one is place and I have two places on the map. They are in Diamonds Land and Stars Land. The Diamonds Land’s place named Diamond Castle, because there’ll a lot of diamonds in there. The other one is Sunny Castle and people can come to that place and look at the stars. People love going to those places.


     Next one is region and the climate at here is hot for some places and some are cool. People all worship Hearts, because that’s how they had Hearts Land and Blood Ocean. It is also surround by ocean named Blood Ocean. The name sounds scary, but if you hear the meaning, it’s really meaningful (which is on the poster).

     Location shows that Love (which is the capital of Hearts Land) is in North East of the map. Circular is also North East, Squarle is North West, SHINee is also North East, and Diamond is also North East. Most of the areas are in North East and they are in the right of the countries.

     Movements are trading and weathering. People move to another place for trading. They trade hearts, diamonds, stars, circles, and squares to each other. They move because of weathering. There are places that are really hot and people have to move from place to place because they can’t live in those hot places. People usually choose cool places, and it is also near the cities or capitals.

     Human adapt from the environment by the weather. As I explained above, the weather in some areas are hot, so people have to move. Most capitals are cold, but it’s better than hot areas. People don’t live there a lot and they like cool places.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

My Study Guide

Geography -
  • The study of places, people, and environment
3 Types of Maps -
  • Political
  • Physical
  • Thematic - climate, resources, time zone,...
5 Themes of Geography -
  • Place - based on human and physical characteristic of an area
  • Movement - movement of people, goods, and idea
  • Human / Environment Interaction -  how humans respond (adapt) to the environment and how environment respond (adapt) to the humans
  • Region - same physical characteristic and human characteristic
  • Location -  exact position based on longitude and latitude
6 Essential Elements -
  • The world in spatial terms
  • Places and regions
  • Physical systems

  • Human systems
  • Environment and society
  • The uses of geography

What I learned from someone's culture and mine

I learned that Nguyen Trai is my great great great great grandfather. I was surprised by my dad. He took our family history book out and told me about my family and how we got killed for 3 generations and how we got saved. I was shocked about my own family. My grandfather was also a translator for the American War. I also saw a picture that he was standing with his American friend.
What I learned from others that Antonia's family are from Hue, I didn't know that because her Vietnamese isn't different than mine, there are 3 kinds of Vietnamese and I speak the South. I learned that Mickey's family has a lot of people. I learned Aeris's manga book is really cool and what her family likes. I also know that Lucky's father was in the Cambodian-Vietnamese war. I also learned David's brother loves tennis and Khai can throw those pins really cool. I also know that Conan has the same countryside as me. I'm glad to know these things from them.