Ewww, so vacations are over and I came back to school again, so today I'm going to write about the topics we've seen since August, yay! Haha, it's not really interesting but well.
1.- The Water Cycle.
As you may know, the earth has a limited amount of water, and that water keeps going around and around and around and around and (well, you get the idea) in what we call the "Water Cycle". This cycle is made up of a few main parts:
1. evaporation (and transpiration)
2. condensation
3. precipitation
4. collection
Evaporation is when the sun heats up water in rivers or lakes or the ocean and turns it into vapor or steam. The water vapor or steam leaves the river, lake or ocean and goes into the air.
Water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming clouds. This is called condensation.
Precipitation occurs when so much water has condensed that the air cannot hold it anymore. The clouds get heavy and water falls back to the earth in the form of rain, hail, sleet or snow.
When water falls back to earth as precipitation, it may fall back in the oceans, lakes or rivers or it may end up on land. When it ends up on land, it will either soak into the earth and become part of the “ground water” that plants and animals use to drink or it may run over the soil and collect in the oceans, lakes or rivers where the cycle starts all over again.
2.- The Planets in our Solar System.
There're eight planets in our Solar System, plus obviously the Sun. They're (in order from de Sun):
1.- Mercury: the closest planet to the Sun and the eighth largest.
2.- Venus: the sixth largest; Venus' orbit is the most nearly circular of that of any planet, with an eccentricity of less than 1%.
3.- Earth: the fifth largest; the only planet whose English name does not derive from Greek/Roman mythology but from Old English and Germanic. This is our home, the place where we all live in peace as one. Like Lennon said once, haha.
4.- Mars: is the fourth planet from the Sun and the seventh largest, it's called "the red planet".
5.- Jupiter: is the fifth planet from the Sun and by far the largest. Jupiter is more than twice as massive as all the other planets combined (the mass of Jupiter is 318 times that of Earth).
6.- Saturn: is the second largest, it has kind of "rings" around it.
7.- Haha, Uranus: the third largest (by diameter). Uranus is larger in diameter but smaller in mass than Neptune. It has a really nice blue color and the funnier name ever.
8.- Neptune: it has nothing in common with Poseidon, the king of the Sea, or ever with Finnick, the king of Panem's sea... it's the last one and the cooler.
3.- Bad habits.
We all know that a bad habit is a negative behaviour pattern, that most of us have but don't want to admit...
Something like chewing gum, burst, be late, smoke, iterrumpt a conversation, being rude, being cholo, cani or wachiturro, have bad table manners or whatever, we need to quit them now, for God's love.
4.- Our planet.
The Earth has given us home for thousands of years, and in return, we have only been damaging and killing it slowly with events such as:
- deforestation
- overpopulation
- pollution
- hunting endangered animals
- overexploating natural resources
We must remember that if we keep doing the same thing without giving anything positive to the planet, at some point it will just stop being the amazing home we've ever known, and that will not be enough for our future generations.
That's all folks! See you later, I guess...
Love Always,
Nora.
