Eli

I'm 10 and the things I like best at school are maths, kapa haka and PE. Outside of school I like rugby league, biking, scootering, and being at home.

Homework Concept Study Water Cycle - Power point about key aspects Evaporation (and transpiration), Condensation, Precipitation, Collection

Let's follow a drop of water and since most water is in the ocean we'll start there... Our drop of water is sunbathing near the surface of the ocean. The sun warmed it and EVAPORATED it into tiny droplets of water vapour which rose and rose higher into the air. Eventually strong winds took it miles and miles until it was over land.

Warm updrafts coming up from the heated land surface took the dropettes even higher, into cold air. When the vapour was cold it CONDENSED (turned back into a liquid) on tiny particles of dust, smoke and salt crystals in the air where it helped to form a cloud. If it had been cold enough the liquid would have frozen into ice crystals.

When our drop got together with a lot of others and formed bigger drops, they became heavy and gravity helped them fall to the earth as PRECIPITATION, rain\

Definitions Evaporation: 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. Transpiration: Transpiration is the process by which moisture is carried through plants from roots to small pores on the underside of leaves, where it changes to vapor and is released to the atmosphere.

Condensation:

Water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming clouds. This is called condensation. Precipitation: 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. Collection: 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.

Hey Eli, LOVED your water cycle presentation - you show a great understanding of this concept! Regarding the compare and contrast activity, you needed to use either a Venn diagram, the SOLO compare contrast or make a table (whichever is easiest...) as these make it easier to understand exactly WHAT you are comparing. When it comes to publishing your stories, you need to say that this is what you are doing...


 * Hi Eli! Nice work with the water cycle research. I look forward to seeing more of you work here. Ms H**
 * May 14**
 * 1. Compare and contrast Star Wars and Star Trek**
 * Similarities**


 * aliens**
 * spaceships**
 * names of show**
 * ray guns**
 * robots**

**It had red, orange,green and yellow flashing lights.**

 * TEN MINUTES LATER...**

Then all of a sudden a UFO smashed trough the roof and landed iN the middle of the theatre then the alien stepped out and said
==="have you got the food yet?" then I freaked out because I had'nt bought the food yet. Then I thought he was going to shoot me with his ray gun so I ran and hid behind a sign saying "The Dictator coming soon...===

The dead rising
Once upon a time in a cemetry in the middle of nowhere there was an old man named John and his grandson Jimmy were living in that cemetry making sure everything was OK...

When it is night time... everything was ok,until the full moon rises. Jimmy and John had an early night that night because the night before they were rocking and rolling and patting dogs. So when they went to bed the dead were uprising...

There were Zombies,ghosts and vampires. They were all going for Jimmy but old man John saw shadows in the distance so he grabbed a pitchfork and went to see what it was.

When he turned the corner he was bitten by a zombie, now he became one and they all went hunting for Jimmy inside the house but Jimmy wasn't in the house he was outside, and he shot the house with his bazooka KABOOM the house was disintegrated and all the zombies flew into the sky they were big,fat,small and tall. As they were in the sky Jimmy was shooting them one by one with his 50 cal sniper rifle

How did the leopard get its spots?

Once there was a young tiger with the usual stripes that all tigers have, and early one morning he decided to go for a jog on his own. Before long he left the jungle but he kept going on and on until he came to a place where there were no trees or any kind of shade at all. He thought that was very interesting because he had always lived in the jungle, so he went even further to explore.

Soon the young tiger was tired and fell asleep when he lay d//own// to rest. While he was asleep the sun rose high in the sky until it was right overhead. It became really really hot but the tiger was so tired from his long jog that he slept on. He got so hot that his stripes melted. When he woke up he was so hot and thirsty he jumped into the first stream he could find, and had a long long drink. Then he set off for home, and he dried on the way. When he got home his friends were laughing at him because he had changed from stripes to spots. Because when it was so hot the stripes melted and faded into spots and dried up. Then one of his friends said “hey he needs a new name because he isn’t one of us anymore”, then another one of his friends said “ we shall call him leopard”.

That’s how Leopards got their spots