In the short story, "The Sound of Thunder," we learned that traveling through time can be dangerous. The characters from the story realize how they impact nature when one of the hunters steps on a butterfly. Through the destruction of one small element of the ecosystem, the future was changed. This is known as the “Butterfly Effect.” Man is causing changes in the ecosystem today.
Choose one of the topics below and write six sentences about how “tomorrow” will be affected by that topic.
Example:
Today: There is an oil spill off the coast of California.
Tomorrow:
1. Fish are poisoned.
2. People must buy expensive fish from the east coast.
3. People can no longer afford fish so they eat more meat.
4. More and more people get high cholesterol.
5. Some people die from heart attacks due to high cholesterol.
6. A president who creates positive change in the world is never born.
Choose one topic:
Topic 1: More oil is pumped to lower the price of gas.
Topic 2: A park is made into a parking lot.
Topic 3: A new landfill opens in your neighborhood.
Write your topic here.
Today:
Complete six sentences.
Tomorrow:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
The deadline for this activity is 9/21 at 11p.m.
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Today: Topic 3: A new landfill opens in your neighborhood.
Tomorrow:
1.Money needs to be spent into making the landfill.
2.People are going to complain about the smell.
3.It goes to the major and he/she says that nothing can be done.
4.People have to deal with the smell with the rest of there lives (until they move).
5.Later on there is a hurricane and garbage fly's into neighborhood.
6.The neighborhood now has to deal with the smell and cleaning up after the hurricane.
Today : Topic 3 ; A park is made into a parking lot.
Tomorrow :
1. disturbance for the neighborhood.
2.now kids wont have a nearby
park to go to.
3. the neighborhood will
be crowded with cars/ lots.
4.residents wont get more green space out of thin air for their neighborhood.
5.The city will pave several different walking paths and
that will change the neighborhood.
6. everyone will wonder what the city parks department has done
with the money, and this idea
of transforming, a park to
a parking lot.
Today: Topic 1: More oil is pumped to lower the price of gas.
Tomorrow:
1. The demand of pumping more oil will increase thus supplying more jobs for society.
2. Since the price of gas will decrease more people will be in the streets exploring.
3. The resources for the gas will eventually run short.
4. They would not be able to produce the same amount of gas as they used to.
5. They would have to increase the price of the gas, since the supply is less.
6. Since the supply is less, eventually the demand will not be so large since its price has increased, therefore many workers would lose their jobs.
Today: Topic 1: A park made into a parking lot.
Tommorrow:
1) The animals would loose their natural habitat.
2) There would be no place where family and friends can enjoy a relaxing day at the park.
3) The area would be full and crowded with the cars.
4) There won't be any trees to absorb the carbon dixoide in the air for us to breathe oxygen.
5) There would be to much noise by the neighborhood.
6) More and more cars can pollute the enivornment.
Today;
Topic 1: A park is made into a parking lot.
Tomorrow;
1)Air pollution will increase due to the release of emissions from cars.
2) Animals would loose their ecosystem
3) Childrens alike families won't have a park to enjoy.
4) Trees to produce oxygen for us to breath would be cut down.
5) Some people might loose their jobs, and students may have to look elsewhere to do activities and/or community hours.
6) Kids might actually start hanging out in places where it can disturb others since they will no longer have a place to be with their friends.
Today, Topic:A new landfill opens in your neighborhood.
Tomorrow:
1- The smell will bother the neighborhood.
2- Any natural disaster the neighborhood has to deal with can have trash flying everywhere so they would have to clean up after on top of the damages there can be to their houses.
3- It wouldn't be a nice display on their neighborhood for the residents.
4- People have to deal with the smell for as long as they live there.
5- Residents might not want to live there any longer.
6- The landfill might actually destroy the neighborhood little by little as residents move out the area.
Great job, guys and gals! Keep those ideas coming! SMILE!
Today, Topic: A park is made into a lot.
Tomorrow,
1)Everyone complaints that there is no area for the children to play at.
2)The children can no longer have fun out at their neighborhood park.
3)This may lead them to seek for fun in places they shouldn't be at.
4)There will be more cars polluting the environment and disturbing the peace.
5)So many cars, what happened here!
6)This monsters better not cause any destruction in my town.
Today, Topic: A park is made into a parking lot.
Tomorrow,
1.Animals will suffer because they will losse there resources.
2.Parents might be couting on the park for there kids to stay after school.
3. There will be alot more traffic.
4.Complaints because kids wont be able to enjoy themeselves.
5.More pollution.
6.Many discordants sounds, because of the cars noise's and neighbors will get upset.
Today, Topic : A park is made into a parking lot.
Tomorrow,
1. Animals will lose their habitats..
2. There will be more pollution in the air due to the the cars fuels.
3. There's no place for kids to place
4. If students hang out at the park after school, that cant occur anymore so most will go to the streets.
5. Oxygen is limited.
6. More noise.
Melissa P
Period 4
Topic 1 , today: More oil is pumped to lower the price of gas.
Today:
Tomorrow:
1. The amount that was composed wont be produced equally no longer.
2. People left without jobs would be rummaging the streets for jobs.
3. an abundant amount of workers would be left without jobs to support their family and such.
4.The price of the gas would have to be raised because of lesser supply.
5. To pay smaller amounts of gas prices , people will ask for more oil to be pumped which in return helps the economy with open spots in jobs.
6. The resources of the gas will further on die out.
Fabulous!
Topic2:A park is made into a parking lot.
Tomorrow:
1.Kids arent going to have swings to swing on.
2.The cars are going to be noisy for the neighbors around.
3.Dogs arent going to be able to walk or run at the park.
4.Partys are held in the park for free to have fun and now their not gonna have anywhere to celebrate it at.
5.More teenagers are going to want to get a drivers licensce and own a car.
6.Couples arent going to be able to enjoy a nice romantic walk in the park or a picnic.
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