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media type="custom" key="4209517"  KNOWLEDGE QUESTION * Name a country and describe why it had a flood or drought ? Codie: I know that Australia has had many droughts because it is so hot there and China has had a big flood I think that it was caused by mass amounts of rainfall. Dewalt: I know Africa has alot of droughts in certain areas i mainly think its because of the lack of rainfall but then again as Codie has said Australlia is always affected by droughts because of the heat waves and not much rain fall. * What is a drought ? Codie: A drought is a long period of time when the sun is hot and it dries up all moisture on the land. Dewalt: A drought is when a surface or area gets too hot then starts getting the water from the soil and that starts to evaporate then the water is all gone and its a drought.  COMPREHENSION * Can you explain how floods and droughts are caused ? Codie: I think floods are caused by lots and lots of rainfall and droughts are caused when an area is very hot and the water just evaporates and the wind blows the rainclouds away.  Dewalt: I think floods are caused by not only alot of rainfall but in some countrys the flood could also come from melting ice and droughts are caused when a surface gets to certain temprature and the water drains out of the dirt and evaparates into the sky.  * What is a flood ? Codie: A flood is a huge downfall of rain that doesn't stop and it can destroy buildings and lots of other things it can even kill. Dewalt: A flood is a huge amount of rain that surges through a place and drowns anything that gets in its way. APPLICATION * What signs do you look for if you think there is a drought or flood coming ? Codie: If there was going to be a flood I would look for signs like big black clouds and if there was going to be a drought I would look out for things like lots of heat or you could really just find out through the weather forecast. Dewalt: if a drought is coming the signs i would look for is if the grounds starts getting really dry then the process has started, you can also know that a drought is coming if your country is experiencing a heatwave and if there was a flood coming theres only one thing you can do and that's look for alot of black clouds. * How long do you think has floods and droughts been around ? Codie: Well floods and droughts have obviously been around since the world began but I think they effect us more now days because we have more liabilities. Dewalt: I think floods and droughts have been around since the start of life.

ANALYSIS

flood ?
====Codie: When facing a flood you would encouter things such as landslides, buildings and vehicles destroyed, and maybe even death. ====  Dewalt: When in a drought you could and probably will be experiencing lack of water or dehydration, dead crops, if on a farm dead animals and if stuck in the desert or wild in a drought possibly death.

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would you do to prevent it ?
====Codie: well, if I came face to face with a flood obviously I would go indoors and seal any holes or cracks in the walls, but I am not sure what I could do to prevent a flood. ==== Dewalt: If i came face to face with a flood I would probabily go into a building and get as high as possible so that I dont get hurt and so the water can't reach me, the noly thing that could prevent a flood I think is a massive hole/ditch in front of the flood so the water goes down into the hole/ditch and no one gets hurt.

* What do you think about floods and about droughts and explain why you think so ?
====<span style="color: #ff8900; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Codie: I think floods and droughts can both be deadly and are very horrible things because with droughts you run out of water and you can easily get dehydrated in the heat and floods are also terrible because you can drown in the mass amounts of water and so many possesions can be destroyed. ==== Dewalt: I think of floods as sometimes being a good thing, like if there was a massive drought in anarea the flood would restore that water back but on the other hand they are very dangerous and destroy alot of things, the only way they can do it is by when the water comes the water rises so not only you cant drive a car but all of your possesions get ruined in the middle of the night. Droughts are not good at all drought dry up sertain areas and by doing so they destroy crops and they start forest fires, a drought does this by sucking all the nutriants out of the soil so the crops cant grow and they start fires by when a forest gets to a conbustible temprature it burns the forest they can also be very deadly causing lack of hydration. All in all floods are nothing to play with if you get in a situation that involves a flood or drought then get out of it!