Before and after vocabulary grid
WALT identify the meaning of the word using the context clues.
Vocabulary | Word in L1 | My definition | Revised definition |
Carbon dioxide | Kaponi taiokisaitii | My meaning of Carbon dioxide is a type of gas | Carbon dioxide is produced during the processes of decay of organic materials and the fermentation of sugars in bread, beer and wine making. |
challenges | faingataʻa | My meaning of Challenge is when your competing someone or versing someone | a call to someone to participate in a competitive situation or fight to decide who is superior in terms of ability or strength. |
climate | ʻea | Climate is average weather. | the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period. |
eco-systems |
| When you get everyone together and do activities to stop climate change | a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. |
emission | ngāue fake faifekau | Emission is when it harms the environment. | the production and discharge of something, especially gas or radiation. |
environment | ʻātakaí | When you help save the earth. | the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates. |
erosion | fakangata
| Erosion is the action of surface processes that removes soil. | the process of eroding or being eroded by wind, water, or other natural agents. |
greenhouse effect | ola ʻo e fale fakailiʻanga ʻakau | Greenhouse effect is a natural process that warms the earth surface | the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere, due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun |
greenhouse gases |
ngaahi kasa fakaili ʻakau
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Greenhouse gases are basically the same as greenhouse effects but include water. |
a gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation. Carbon dioxide and chlorofluorocarbons are examples of greenhouse gases. |
methane |
| Methane is a type of greenhouse gas , it’s also a part of the greenhouse effect. | a colourless, odourless flammable gas which is the main constituent of natural gas. It is the simplest member of the alkane series of hydrocarbons. |
temperature | māfana ʻa e | When it is cold or hot outside. | the degree or intensity of heat present in a substance or object, especially as expressed according to a comparative scale and shown by a thermometer or perceived by touch. |
weather | anga ʻo e ʻ
| When it is raining or sunny outside. | the state of the atmosphere at a particular place and time as regards heat, cloudiness, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc. |
