week #3 reding journal - water, everywhere? not puite

In some places, it is difficult to get water for drinking, washing, and farming. Hard to believe, but there are more than 1 billion people have little access to drinkable water. As a vital resource, water has become a major political issue, some countries arguing about rivers and lakes that are overlap on them. For example, in Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers rise in Turkey, where dams built to store water have lowered the water’s flow rate for Turkey’s neighbors. Also water is necessary for farming. People are trying to solve water problem of farming in dry place. Researchers discovered drop system that only use minimal amount of water. In this system vegetables only use right amount of water that they needed.

【Vocab】

   Conflict

    Noun- a situation in which people, groups, or countries are involved in a serious disagreement or argument.

    A conflict between two countries are affect others too.

week #3 reading journal - Mock Mrs mission

 To simulate a mission to Mars, 6 men lived in cramped, window-less compartments for more than 17 months. This experiment was the longest mock space mission ever. They were measuring human responses to the confinement, stress, and fatigue of a round trip to Mars, of cause in weightlessness. The facility was institute for Medical and Biological Problems, Russia’s premier space medicine center, included living compartments the size of a bus, connected with several other similarly sized compartments for experiments and exercise. A real flight to Mars is a distant prospect due to challenges such as creating a compact and relatively lightweight spacecraft that would shield the crew from deadly cosmic radiation.

【Vocb】
 *mock
         noun - a prctice exam that you do before the official one
         You have to do mock before you run in the Honolulu Mrthon!