Professional Documents
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Reading Strategies
Synthesizing
Piecing information together as
students read a text, to keep
track of what is happening.
Consulting a reference
Using a dictionary, thesaurus,
reference chart or glossary to
help find word
meaning/pronunciations.
Creating Images
Creating sensory images to assist
with overall comprehension of a
text.
Skimming
Glancing quickly through material
to gain an overall view of text.
Vocabulary
1. Juvenile (n.) A young person/ animals.
2. Subsequent (adj.) Coming after something.
3. Nymph (n.) An immature form of an insect
that does not change greatly as it grows.
4. Replicated (v.) To make an exact copy of
something.
5. Ambient (adj.) Relating to the immediate
surroundings of something.
6. Predominant (adj.) Having ascendancy,
power, authority, or influence over others.
7. Modellers (n.) A person who creates
models.
8. Localised (v.) To make local.
9. Ecosystem (n.) A biological community and
their physical environment.
10. Extent (n.) the amount to which
something is or is believed to be the case.
Summary
UK researchers found that warm
weather could harm insects ability to
reproduce. They said that many baby
insects that couldnt move affected by
warming climate.
"You get an extreme heat weather event
that [the insect] cannot escape from
because they are juveniles, so they can't
move as much," explained co-author
Rhonda Snook from the University of
Sheffield, UK.
They live through it because it does not
kill them, but then they have the
subsequent problem of reproducing.
The team realized that the insect that
live in cold weather was less resistant to
hot weather than the same species of
insects in hot weather.
Dr Snook said that the insects in hot
weather had to evolve to resist hot
weather, with this idea they cant evolve
to resist both hot and cold weather.
Climate modellers told that extreme
weather events are going to be more
frequent. In these events, the
temperatures are set to meet the
conditions where it harm insects ability
to reproduce.
Dr Snook added that any change in
insect populations could result in
changes in the food chain.