jueves, 8 de mayo de 2014

ACTIVITY 1

Act/1.

List of  water sources: 




  • Waterfall
  • Lake
  • Sea
  • Inside Bamboo
  • River
    Way of purifying water:
    One way of purigying water is tant you have to boil it at high fire and that way kill every single germ or bacterium.
  • Answers for the article "Searching for water"A) Because to not get a disease
    B) you could get diseases as: 
    dysentery, typhoid and cholera
    C) jungle swamps and that style of water resources.

    Act/2.

    List of edible things:


    Pineapple: This friut is a tropical plant 100% edible, and they are easy to find because this plants are very long (high, tall)
    Tomato: The tomato is a very famous fruit/vegetable because in the middle ages the people thought it was poisoned and if you eat it you die.        
                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

  • List of edible things: 

  • insects: cricket/they are edible only if you put them 1 minute into fire 
  • snakes: As everybody knows, the mayority of this animals are poisoned, but if you cut its head it would be edibe and delicious.

  • Things you cant eat

    Stinging Tree

    A poisonous plants to be avoided is the stinging tree.
    Growing in size from 3 feet to 4 feet, with large, heart-shaped leaves
    the stinging tree is covered in fine hairs that can penetrate the skin and deliver a powerful toxin that can be fatal for humans and other creatures.

    Caladium

    More commonly known by names such as "elephant ear," "heart of Jesus" and "angel wings," caladium is a member of the Araceae family of plants
    Eating any part of it can cause serious illness, and even touching it may cause irration to the skin

    Curare
    probably the best known of the Amazon rain forest's toxic plants is curare. It has long been used by the indigenous peoples as a poison into which arrows are dipped prior to being fired from blowpipes. It brings down prey by paralyzing victims after it has shut down the respiratory system. 

    Strychnos

     

    One of the most toxic varieties is Strychnos toxifera, a liana that can grow more than 30 feet long and produces bitter red fruit. A poison used by native people is made from the tree bark.

     

     

     

     




    1 comentario:

    1. Corrections:
      water is that you have to boil it at high fire
      Because to not get a disease (you mean " you avoid getting a disease)
      jungle swamps and that type of water resources.
      its head it would be edibe and (edible)
      this plants are (you mean "these plants")
      the middle ages the people thought it was poisoned and if you eat it you die. (you mean " in the middle ages people thought it was poisonous and if you ate it you could die")
      the mayority of this animals are poisoned (you mean "these animals are poisonous")
      A POISONOUS PLANTS TO BE AVOIDED IS THE (a poisonous plant you have to avoid)
      There are things copied from a web page. Be careful with that.









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