F2F Class Notes (Raph)[W]

Vocabulary

Forage (v): 1- to go from place to place searching for things that you can eat or use. (n: Forager)
E.g.: The children had been living on the streets, foraging for scraps.

Myth (n): 1- an ancient story or set of stories, especially explaining the early history of a group of people or about natural events and facts. 2- a commonly believed but false idea.
E.g.: The children enjoyed the stories about the gods and goddesses of Greek and Roman myth.
E.g.: Statistics disprove the myth that women are worse drivers than men.

Mythology (n): 1- myths in general. 2- the science that studies myths.
E.g.: She’s fascinated by the stories of classical mythology (= ancient Greek and Roman myths).
E.g.: I’m doing as course in Chinese Mythology

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/7/15/15972854/tardigrades-end-of-the-world

Original:

People always assume that we are on the top of the food chain, but our lives are actually so vulnerable that we could be killed by a lot of things like diseases, extreme climates and lack of water. If a cataclysm happens and wipes out most of life on earth, including humans, there will still be a specie surviving. They are tardigrades. These magical microscopic animals seem to have superpower. According to scientists, some of them can withstand shocking heat or extreme cold, others have survived in the deep ocean or vacuum of space. Scientists really have tried hard to test tardigrades’ upper limit for heat and radiation exposure, and they suggest that if an asteroid with enough energy to incinerate the oceans, it could get rid of these toughest animals, which is not likely to happen.

Edited:

People always assume that we are at the top of the food chain, but our lives are actually so vulnerable that we could be killed by a lot of things, like diseases, extreme climates and lack of water. If a cataclysm happens and wipes out most of life on Earth, including humans, one species would still survive. They are the tardigrades, seemingly magical microscopic animals that appear to have superpowers. According to scientists, some of them can withstand shocking heat or extreme cold, others have survived in the deep oceans or in the vacuum of space. Scientists really have tried hard to test tardigrades’ upper limit for heat and radiation exposure, and they suggest that only in the unlikely event of an asteroid with enough energy to incinerate the oceans hit the Earth, would it be possible to get rid of these tough animals, .

Pronunciation

Asteroid: /ˈæs.tə.rɔɪd/

Incinerate: /ɪnˈsɪn.ə.reɪt/

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