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第 5 課 :Glacier retreat 組員 : 陳盈茜 魏偉峰 許晉瑞 王思詠 曾乙婷. First Paragraph Main Idea. 1.The result of glaciers shrink is not only warmer weather but also reduce the snow.

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  1. 第5課:Glacier retreat組員:陳盈茜 魏偉峰 許晉瑞 王思詠 曾乙婷

  2. First Paragraph Main Idea • 1.The result of glaciers shrink is not only warmer weather but also reduce the snow. • 2.The glaciers cannot sustain its mass because warmer temperatures melt more ice and less snow is falling.

  3. Vocabulary Carbon emissions碳排放 – pollutants entering the air as a result of burning fossil fuels. Greenhouse gases溫室氣體 – pollutants that trap heat in the atmosphere. Atmosphere大氣 – the whole mass of air surrounding the earth Glaciers冰河 – a large mass of ice Sustain持久 – to give support or relief to Shrink縮短– to become smaller or more compacted Retreat退縮 – the moving back of something

  4. paragraph’s main idea • Why do scientists and environmentalists so concerned?

  5. SecondParagraph’s Words • Glaciers冰河(n)Themassofcompactedsnowformingtheupperpartofaglacier • Melting融化(v)Toreducefromasolidtoaliquidstate, asbyheat • Available可用的(adj) Suchasonemayavailone'sselfof • Mass質量(n) Aquantityofmattercoheringtogethersoastomakeonebody • Disaster災難(n) Anadverseorunfortunateevent • Sustain供應(vt) Tokeepfromfalling; tobear; touphold

  6. Third paragraph’s main idea • The disappearance of glaciers would causing floods and rising water levels, and floods and rising water levels are displacing thousands of people.

  7. 單字 • flood淹沒 (n) -a state of abundant flow or volume —often used in the phrase in full flood. • increased增加(v)-made or become greater. • reliant依靠的 (adj)-having reliance on something or someone. • Threatening徵兆(adj)-to utter threats against. • settlements殖民(n)- occupation by settlers

  8. Fourth Paragraph’s main idea • Food supply problems caused by the melting of glaciers have a serious impact on people and animals.

  9. Fourth Paragraph’s Words • settlement(村莊) _ a community of people smaller than a town • force (迫使)_ a powerful effect or influence • irrigation(灌溉)_the use of water on crops • arable(可開墾的)_able to be farmed • diminishes(減少)_decrease • ecosystem(生態系統)_a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment • coral(珊瑚)_he hard stony skeleton of a Mediterranean coral that has a delicate red or pink color and is used for jewelry

  10. Main ideas • The accelerated loss of glaciers, itself caused by global warming, compounds the effect of global warming.

  11. 單字 • Prominent(adj):突出的/突起的 particularly noticeable • Catastrophe(n):大災難/大敗 a disaster • Accelerate(adj):加快的/加速的 expedite • Disappear(v):消失 to fade away • Compound(v):使…惡化 to worsen

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