Reading Task

Pest Trap

WALT: Use our analysing skills

• Choose five key vocabulary and phrases from the list provided, and find the meaning or the definition of these key vocabulary and phrases.Show your understanding of these vocabulary and phrases by using them all in a factual statement about traps for pests.

• Lure Meaning - A lure is when you tempt someone to do something or go somewhere, but mostly when you offer them something.When they were trying to find something to Lure the Possum, they found out that possums really like cinnamon. So when they were making their trap they used cinnamon to Lure the possums.

• Inflated - Inflated means when something is expand using air or gas.

A guy name Craig Bond was stuck of thinking ways to power a new pest trap. He went out for a while and decided to use his bike but he got a flat tyre, a stranger offered a help to pump up the tyre using a small canister of compressed gas. Within seconds, the tyre was inflated ... and that’s when he had an idea,without the man he could have been stuck.

• Stowaways Meaning - a person who stows away on a passenger vehicle.

When the maori’s found New Zealand there were stowaway which catched a ride. Stowaway were rats that climbed aboard when they went to find New Zealand/New Island. Rats weren’t part of New Zealand native animals, even cows, pigs, and more like cats, and dogs.

• Durable Meaning- It is when something is long lasting, i’d even when it is pressured or damaged.

In the text they were talking about the trap and how they want it to be long lasting and durable, so we are use it implitple times, instead of buying another, after another.

• Predators Meaning - a predator is an animal that eats other animals (which is called a meat eater), it can be weak or small or even another animals egg, some predators eats its own kind such as a praying mantis, black widow spider,sand tiger shark and more other animals..The article shows how possums and stoats where brought to New Zealand by europeans. It has be found that possums and stoats prey on baby birds and baby eggs, they also eat a huge amount of trees, that can stress the trees so much that it eventually dies. This animal can prevent lest food for native birds, it also prevent regrowth.

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How has an environmental issue influenced technology?

Less native bird and other native animals haven’t been killed because of the pest trap that was being made. The pest trap is killing lots of New Zealand’s predators which is lowering extinction of our native animals.. 😺🐺🐀

What questions do you still have about the way we care for our environment?

Is all pests killed now?

Do u they have to get killed? Why can’t they killed by other way?

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What sorts of animals do we have in New Zealand?

Here are  sort of animal that we have in our country;

• Kiwi bird,some a kiwi bird is national sweetheart and a lovely bird in our country, although this bird cannot fly.

• Lesser short-tailed Bat, Lesser short-tailed Bat or pekapeka is an important animal in New Zealand because it’s the only mammal in New Zealand.

• Hector dolphins, only found in New Zealand’s waters, this distinctive grey dolphin with black and white markings and a round dorsal fin is the most easily recognised species of dolphin in New Zealand.