Homework for April 21, 2010

We are celebrating EARTH DAY this whole week. EARTH DAY is on Thursday, April 22.

Vocabulary to study and use for the next two days:

1. Air -- Aire
2. Animals -- Animales
3. Clean -- Limpio
4. Conservation -- Conservacion
5. Earth -- Tierra
6. Ecosystem -- Ecosistema
7. Energy -- Energia
8. Fuel -- Combustible
9. Landfills -- Vertederos
10. Litter -- Basura
11. Oceans -- Oceanos
12. Oxygen -- Oxigeno
13. Ozone -- Ozono
14. Plants -- Plantas
15. Pollution -- Contaminacion
16. Preserve -- Conserva/Conservacion
17. Rainfores -- Selva / Pluviselva
18. Wetlands -- Pantanos
19. World -- Mundo
20. Waste -- Desperdicios

The first 20 words are for the homework; the crossword puzzle.
other vocabulary

1. Extinct -- Desaparecido
2. Habitat -- Ambiente
3. Home -- Casa / Hogar
4. People -- Gente
5. Recycle -- Reciclar
6. Resource -- Recurso
7. Reuse -- Reutilizacion
8. Volunteer -- voluntario
9. Water -- Agua
10. River - Rio
11. Sea -- Mar
12. Lake -- lago
13. Pond -- laguna
14. Creek -- Arollo
15. Swamp -- Pantano

Most of the vocabulary words are COGNATES.

***COGNATE: words that are similar in spanish and english and have the same definition and root.

Be very carefull with the false congnates.

***FALSE COGNATES: are pairs of words in the same or different languages that are similar in form and meaning but have different roots. That is, they appear to be, or are sometimes considered, cognates, when in fact they are not. Even if false cognates lack a common root, there may still be an indirect connection between them.
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