Day 5 (Week 1, The last day of the week!) - SLJ

Hey lovely peoples! Guess what!?... It's Day 5! That means the last day of week 1! Yay, we are nearly moving to week 2! on the next day!  So just bear with me! Let's go~

DAY 5: Blink and You’ll Miss It

Activity 1: Towering Timbers [4 points]

There is a long and rich history of logging in New Zealand. Logging involves cutting down trees. The people who cut them down are called loggers. The trees that they cut down are sold and used to build things (eg. houses), to make products (eg. paper), and to generate (create) heat and power. Over the past two centuries, many of the trees in New Zealand have been cut down by loggers.

Left: NZ native forest Right: A logged forest

Some people like logging because it creates jobs for the loggers and generates money for New Zealand while others are against (opposed to) logging. Many of those opposed are worried that logging will damage the environment. It might also force animals who live in trees (eg. owls) to find new homes.

What do you think about logging?

On your blog tell us whether you think logging should be allowed in New Zealand. Be sure to provide at least two reasons to support your argument.

In my opinion, cutting down trees/ logging is extremely bad for our environment, why?

Here’s why:

There’s a word called “Deforestation” - that means removal or clearance of forest. Deforestation affects a lot of things like:  

• Oxygen - Based on my research, 90% of oxygen trees can produce in a year, so that means, no trees no oxygen. If there’s no oxygen then we won’t be able to breathe, then we could just die.
• Climate change - Deforestation control the climate change as well, the more we cut trees, the more the weather became crazy and out of control at all and it affects us.
• Greenhouse gasses -Greenhouse gasses are a huge role that controls by trees in the forest, it absorbs the fuel global warming. So the more we cut trees and not replanting it, the lesser trees get, when the lesser the trees get, the greenhouses gasses entering the atmosphere.

So please, when you cut trees it’s small or huge still replant it so it won’t cause a lot of problems to our planet. Here's a LINK to find out more about this

Activity 2: Living on the Edge [4 points]

While it can get quite cold in New Zealand, it rarely drops below freezing (00C). Most of the time the temperature in New Zealand is pretty mild. This is not the case in the tundra. The tundra is an area of land (biome) that is cold, dry and completely treeless. Did you know that the average temperature in the tundra is -280C?

Over the past few years, however, the temperature in the tundra has been rising and the weather has been changing. Let’s imagine that your teacher decides to take you on a class trip to the tundra before the weather changes too much and you aren’t able to go.

On your blog, write a letter to your best friend or a family member telling them about your trip to the tundra. To earn full points your letter must have a greeting (eg. Dear…) followed by 5 – 6 sentences of information about what your experience.

  

Here's my fake letter that I'm sending to my friend Jolly Rose about my "Trip" to Tundra. (I wish all of this is real)

North pole, Tundra (Biome)

22 September 2019

Dear Jolly Rose,

Kamusta Jolly Rose! My trip to Tundra was adventurous!, It was freezing cold there, the temperature was -28C. I felt like I was in a giant freezer! The ground was frosty and there are no trees could be seen even a single tree! It was just like a dream come true!

We also learn the two types of Tundra, which is Alpine Tundra and Arctic Tundra. Alpine Tundra is the area of land high in the mountains above the tree line. Next, the Arctic Tundra is located far north in the northern hemisphere along the Arctic Circle. There are huge areas of tundra in northern North America, northern Europe, and northern Asia as well.

Here are facts that I’ve learned while I was there, there’s a thing called “Permafrost’, Permafrost means a layer of a topsoil ground that remains frozen in years, that’s why even a single tree never grow there because the ground is frozen.

I really enjoyed my trip to Tundra, even thou it’s called I’d really like to come back there!

Kind regards,

Elisha Mae.

Activity 3: Going, going….gone [10 points]

Over the years, scientists have made some surprising discoveries. One of these discoveries

is that we have entire cities (e.g. Jakarta, Indonesia and Venice, Italy) that are slowly sinking into the ocean. Scientists believe that one day, the cities will disappear completely under the water. Yikes!

Some of the residents (people living in the cities) have taken pictures of their neighborhoods and written stories about their lives in order to make a record of what ‘life was like’ in their city before it disappeared.

Let’s imagine that New Zealand was going to sink to the bottom of the ocean next week (Eek!). Before it sinks you are asked to write a blog post telling people what life was like in New Zealand in 2018.

On your blog, post a description of life in New Zealand in 2018. Please remember that the people who read your post will have never been to New Zealand or even seen a picture so it is your job to ‘paint a picture’ of New Zealand using your words. You can also post pictures if you wish. Be sure to fully attribute the pictures.

For the past few years living in New Zealand is like a dream come true, because in New Zealand here, all the people are nice and kind, well some of them. Especially for Asian people like me, people in my country that would like to go here would willingly sell anything just to come to this wonderful place. So it's a blessing for me and my family that we came to this beautiful country.

But sadly, It's just so upsetting that knowing this flawless country would sink next week, but there's nothing we can do stop it. So that's why I'm gonna tell you, awesome people, my life was like in New Zealand before this gorgeous country sink to the ocean fully.

After two years of living here, I can only describe it with one word "Amazing", New Zealand is just a simple country filled with amazing and astonish flowers and nature. The people that usually live here are called Maori and Kiwi.  Kiwi's love cars and you can see a lot of cars here driving every day.

The country of New Zealand won't be called as a country without these two great islands, which is the South and North Island. In this two great Islands, my city which is Christchurch, is part of South Island.

New Zealand's capital city was Wellington (one of the cities In North Island), but Auckland (another city in North Island) has way more population than Wellington, cool right?!

You don’t know how much people in Auckland, It’s over 1 million+ of the population of people living in Auckland!

In New Zealand, there are also four seasons, which is Winter, Summer, Autumn and last but not the least my favorite one is Spring. When it’s winter season it’s super cold but when It’s summer season It’s freakin’ hot. The weather in Christchurch is so crazy, for example, In the morning it was a sunny day but when like time for Lunch, the weather changes so rapidly.

Speaking of weathers, I remember when I and my friend went to school and it was Winter season, the field was frozen like it’s an ice skating rink. Every step we take, the more the slippery or shoes get and “THUG!”, I and my friend fall onto the frosty ground.

New Zealand has a also a native land bird living here and nowhere else around the world could be found. The name of that bird is “Kiwi” not the people here that I mentioned earlier, it’s the national bird. Speaking of “Kiwi” there’s actually three types of Kiwi in NZ (New Zealand).

1. Kiwi - The people that are actually living here, not the people that came from the other country.

2. Kiwi - The Kiwifruit

3. Kiwi - The Kiwi Bird (national native land bird)

The main language of this country is Maori and English, The “New Zeland” word in Maori is “Aotearoa” that means the long white cloud.  

I hope you guys the Day 5 activities of mine and stay tuned! Bye, see ya next week! Please leave a feedback or comment to help me improve my blogpost next time! Bye have a great holiday!