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Jeopardy!
Simple Past Tense: Using -ed
Here is a climate passage using the present tense:
The signs of climate change are all around us. Temperatures are getting warmer, giant ice sheets are melting, and the oceans are rising. In many places, flowers are blooming earlier, snow is melting sooner, and birds aren’t flying as far south for the winter. So why does this matter? Well, if the planet keeps getting warmer, we can expect more powerful storms, flooding, droughts, and heat waves. And these changes could cause additional problems like the spread of certain diseases, more wildfires, and food and water shortages. Climate change could put entire ecosystems, such as coral reefs, in danger. Many plant and animal species could become extinct. The good news is that we can take action.
Now, imagine that we live ten years in the future, and we are looking back on the present time. Perhaps we didn’t take action. This is what the paragraph would look like:
The signs of climate
change were all around us. Temperatures got warmer, giant sheets of ice melted,
and the oceans rose. In many places, flowers bloomed earlier, snow melted sooner, and birds weren’t flying as far south for the winter. So why did this matter? When the planet kept getting warmer, we suffered from more powerful storms, flooding, droughts and heat waves. Because of this, diseases spread, we had more wildfires. We had food and water shortages. Entire ecosystems, such as coral reefs, died. Many plants and animals became extinct. The sad news was that we didn’t take action.
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aboveground Anthropocene Epoch Anthropogenic
assets
blood-alcohol level calamity
carbon dioxide catastrophe
Celsius
climate change Copenhagen Accord crime and violence disruption
earthquakes
ecosystem
embankments
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erosion
extinct
flooding
food shortage
fossil fuel
fossil-fuel companies gigatons
greenhouse effect heatwaves
high tide
lack of affordable housing
lack of public green space legal drinking limit
lower water table
old and broken-down infrastructure
outbreaks of disease pipes
pollution
poverty
power outages
proven
reasonable
rising sea level
Russian roulette
saline intrusion in paddies and aquifer
scariest
sewers
shocks six-shooter storms, tornados stresses underground unemployment unmitigated utilities
waste
water shortage
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