SLJ Week 3 Day 5 Activity 1&2&3

DAY 5: Here to Stay

Activity 1: Persistent Pollution [4 points]

In 2016, the World Health Organisation announced that Timaru, a small town in the South Island of New Zealand, had the highest recorded levels of air pollution in New Zealand. Some of this pollution was caused by natural events (eg. fires) but most of it was produced (made) by humans.

Watch this short video on air pollution. It will tell you more about natural and human causes of pollution.

On your blog, share three new things that you learned about air pollution from this video.

1. Green house gasses are the protective layer of the earth from sunlight, which once destroyed it will be more hotter temperature.
2. I have learned from the video that when fossil fuels are burnt to produce electricity the smoke comes from it's process are considered us air pollution or hazardous to our greenhouse gasses.
3. Most of the air pollution came from us such as energy use in agriculture and there are more other types of human-made air pollution.

Activity 2: Changing Climates [4 points]

Over the past decade, the climate in New Zealand (and around the world) has been changing. In fact, the climate has been getting warmer and warmer. While many of us like warm weather, climate change is not good news. Higher temperatures can cause glaciers to melt (leading to flooding) and increase the amount of rain that falls.

Here in New Zealand, we have noticed the change. In fact, we sometimes have torrential (huge) rain storms causing flooding, landslides and road closures. When it starts to rain really hard, Aronui and I usually hide out in our lounge and play games like Yahtzee, Monopoly and Uno. If it rains all day, we will also spend some time reading, watching movies and baking.

What about you? What do you like to do on a rainy day?  

On your blog, tell us about five things that you like to do when it is too rainy to go outside.

1. Play Roblox
2. Watch YouTube
3. Do chores (Washing the dishes, Mop the floor etc)
4. Sleep
5. Eat

Activity 3: Let It Rain [10 points]

Over the past few decades, we have seen an increase in the amount of rain that falls here in New Zealand. We are lucky, however, that most of the rain that falls is regular rainwater and not polluted acid rain. Acid rain is rain that has bad chemicals (pollutants) in it. When acid rain hits the ground it can enter the water system, killing plants and animals. Click here to learn more about acid rain.

Let’s imagine that New Zealand was hit by a massive acid rain storm. Acidic rain fell for three days and three nights. When the rain fell, you stayed inside with your friends and family. When it stopped, however, you and your family decided to go for a walk outside. You opened the door and...

On your blog, write a short story about what happened when you opened the door and walked outside after the acid rain storm. To earn full points, you must write a story that is 8 – 10 sentences long.

We opened the door and we saw the paint of our car fades. The windshield of the cars has a water-drop mark and its hard to wipe off. As we continue to walk, we saw birds and some animals died in the ground. Trees and plants were destroyed. We have heard that there is a food advisory that tells people to not eat products that was affected by the acid rain such as fruits and vegetables. We have saw a newspaper that tells the water supply was affected. It says that we need to purify the water before drinking to make sure it is safe. It is very tragic and we feel sad because we realized that when we not take care of the environment more and more calamities will happen and it is gonna be stronger. So we need to act now and take care our environment because I believe that prevention is better than cure.