How does Rain Happen?

Rain is the primary source of fresh water for most areas of the world, providing suitable conditions for diverse ecosystems, as well as water for hydroelectric power plants and crop irrigation. The phenomenon of rain is actually a water circle. The concept of the water cycl e involves the sun heating the Earth's surface water and causing the surface wat er to evaporate. The water vapor rises into the Earth's atmosphere. The water in the atmosphere cools and condenses into liquid droplets. The droplets grow unti l they are heavy and fall to the earth as precipitation which can be in the form of rain or snow. However, not all rain reaches the surface. Some evaporates while falling through dry air. This is called virga, a phenomenon which is often seen in hot, dry des ert regions. --------------------------------------How Cell Phones Work A cell phone is a great gadget in this modern world. What is a cell phone? A cel l phone is actually a radio in certain way. Like a radio, by a cell phone we can communicate to other people in real time. Million people use cell phone for the ir communication. Even nowadays, people use cell phones to communicate in voice, written and data. Alexander Graham Bell is the person who make great change in the way people communicate to each other. He invented a telephone in 1876. While wireless radio was formally known in 18994 presented by Guglielmo Marconi. By t hese two technologies, then a cell phone was born. However do you know how actua lly cell phones work? This short explanation on how a cell phone work is really wonderful. A cell phon e or in long term "cellular telephone' works by transmitting signals of radio to towers of cellular. The towers are networked to a central switching station. Th e connection usually uses wire, fiber optic-cables, or microwave. Then the central switching station which handles calls in certain given area is directed connected to the wire-based telephone system. Cellulars are pick up by the towers and relayed to another cellular telephone user or the user of wire-ba sed telephone network. the towers vary in the capacity and capability to receive signals. Some can rece ive the signal from short distance and the others can receive more distance. How ever, there are usually more than one tower in certain given area so that the sy stem can handle the increasing telephone traffic. ----------------------------------------------------How Earthquakes Happen Earthquake is one of the most destroying natural disasters. Unluckily it often h appens in several regions. Recently a horrible earthquake has shaken West Sumatr a. It has brought great damages. Why did it occur? Do you know how an earthquake happens? Earthquakes are usually caused when rock underground suddenly breaks along a fau lt. This sudden release of energy causes the seismic waves. It make the ground s hake. When two blocks of rock or two plates are rubbing against each other, they stick a little. They don't just slide smoothly. The rocks are still pushing aga inst each other, but not moving. After a while, the rocks break because of all t he pressure that's built up. When the rocks break, the earthquake occurs. During the earthquake and afterward, the plates or blocks of rock start moving, and they continue to move until they get stuck again. The spot underground where the rock breaks is called the focus of the earthquake. The place right above th e focus is called the epicenter of the earthquake. ------------------------------------------How do seasons happen?

Seasons come to us regularly. We have probably noticed that it gets warmer in su mmer or dry season while it get colder in the winter or wet season. However do w e know how these seasons change? Seasons happen and change every year. This happens because the earth tilts back and forth as it goes around the sun. During the summer, the earth tilts toward t he sun. It makes half of the earth hotter. this condition is what we call summer . During the other half of the year, the earth tilts away from the sun. As a res ult, it makes that half of the earth cooler. This cool condition is then what we call winter. The different parts of the world have the same season at different times. In the northern half of the world , winter happens during the months of December, Janu ary and February. The regions are such North America and Europe. In the other ha nd, the southern half of the world have winter during the months of June, July a nd August.The regions are like South America and Australia. How does this differ ence happen? The same season happens at different times because the top and bott om halves of the earth tilt away from the sun at different times. ---------------------------------------Why Summer Daylight is Longger than Winter Daylight In the summer, the amount of daylight that we get is more than we get in winter. This is not because as much people think we are closer to the sun but because o f the tilt of the earth. The earth is actually closer to the sun in winter than it is in summer but you w ould be forgiven for thinking that this can not be true after looking out of you r window on a cold and frosty morning. It seems strange that as the earth get closer to the sun during its orbit then t he amount of daylight that we get decrease. But that is the case. It is the tilt of the earth that determine the amount of daylight that we get and so the lengt h of time that for us the sun is above the horizon. (Taken from: www.ictteachers.co.uk) ------------------------------------------------; Example of Explanation Text What is cancer? It is actually a group of more than one hundred separate disease s. Most of us are fear from cancer It is reasonable because next to heart diseas e, cancer is the second leading cause of death. Cancer cells come from normal cells because of mutations of DNA. Those mutations can occur spontaneously. The mutations may be also induced by other factors suc h as: nuclear and electromagnetic radiation, viruses, bacteria and fungi, parasi tes, heat, chemicals in the air, water and food, mechanical cell-level injury, f ree radicals, evolution and ageing of DNA, etc. All such factors can produce mut ations that may start cancer. Cancer cells are formed continuously in the organism. It is estimated that there are about 10,000 cancer cells at any given time in a healthy person. Why do som e result in macroscopic-level cancers and some do not? First, not all damaged ce lls can multiply and many of them die quickly. Second, those which potentially d ivide and form cancer are effectively destroyed by the mechanisms available to t he immune system. Therefore cancer develops if the immune system is not working properly or the amount of cells produced is too great for the immune system to e liminate.