Daily Assessment 4 Nilai

A. Choose the correct answer by crossing A, 8, C, D, or El

This text is for questions 1 to 4. Conditions thal are thought to be drought-like in
North America might not considered drought-like
A drought begins with a disruption to the in Africa or parts of Australia. In arid climates,
water cycle, the.circulation of water from the
people have developed ways of surviving with
Earth's atmosphere to its surface. Sometimes
very little water. They also conserve what little
this disruption happens naturally, such as during water they have.
a heat wave. Most droughts are temporáry, and
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can occur in all climates. Some climates are
permanently dry, or arid, such as deserts. 1. What does the text mainly explain?
A drought is a shortage of precipitation
over a period of time. Droughts get worse when
A. The effects of droughts.
rivers and streams dry up, leaving people without B. The difference between droughts and
water to drink and to grow food. Droughts should arid climates
not be confused with arid climates, where very C. How droughts happen.
little precipitation falls year round. A drought
D. Where droughts occur.
happens when a specific geographic region
E. Why droughts are dangerous.
receives much less precipitation than normal.
2.
The circulation of water from the Earth's D. A rain, thunder, and lightning.
atmosphere to its surface is called... E. A squick storm.
A. a drought D. precipitation
7. From the text, we know that tornadoes
B. arid climate E. drought-like
A. are similar around the world
C. water cycle
3. happen in the shape of circle
It can be concluded that droughts happen are not violent storms
3. C
when D. may travel dozens of miles
A. the areas change into deserts E. move slowly
B some regions experience arid climates 8. "The vortex of winds in size and shape,
C. there is a disruption in the climates
The underlined word has similar in meaning
D. a specific geographic region receives
to.
much precipitation than normal
A. flood D wave
E. there is not enough rain for a long period E. twister
B. race
of time
C. trend
4.
4. "They also conserve what litle water they have."
This text is for questions 9 to 12.
The underlined word has similar in meaning
to The following is how rain is formed. The air
is filled with tiny particles known as vapour.
A. save D. waste
Vapour is actually the gaseous form of
water.
B. release E. support The air around us is constantly moving because
C. Use the air near the surface of the Earth is hotter
and lighter. This is why this air rises. The air
This text is for questions 5 to 8. it
higher up in the sky is cold and heavy, so
sinks. The rising of air and the sinking of cold
Tornadoes are among the most violent
water cause the air to move. When the hot
of
storms on earth, with the potential to cause veryy
air rises to a certain level, the vapour presents
serious damage.
two tornadoes are the same, in it, cools and changes to water. This is known
Although no
as condensation. When the water particles
are
they need certain conditions to form -particularly for the air to carry, the air is said to
intense or unseasonable heat. As the ground too heavy
be oversaturated. The water particles then fall
heats and
temperature increases, moist air
the moist air meets as rain.
starts to rise when warm,

cold dry air, explodes upwards, puncturing the

begin to build. 9. What is the purpose of the text?
layer above. Athunder cloud may There
A storm quickly developes. may be A. To show the form of rain.
movement
a rain, thunder, and lightning. Upward B To explain how rain is formed.
from different
of air can become very rapid. Winds C. To show what rain looks like.
directions it to rotate. A visible cone or
cause
D. To explain what causes rain.
cloud towards the ground.
funnel drops out of the size and shape, and E. To describe rain.
The vortex of winds in
metres wide. A tornado can
can be hundreds of
seconds to more than an hour 10. What is vapour?
last from several
of miles. A. A very tiny particle.
and may travel dozens
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B The gaseous form of water
C. A part of gas.
is about...
The text above
.

5. D. The hot air.

formed
A. how tornadoes are E. A heavy particle of air.
B. where tornadoes happen
oversaturated?
are dangerous 11. When is the air called to be
what tornadoes
A. When the water particles falls as
rain.

D. what cause tornadoes

rotate When the vapour changes into water.
B.
E. why tornadoes
C. When the water particles are too heavy
rotate?
5. What makes the storm for the air to carry.
which drops. a certain level
A. The visible cone
D When the hot air rises to
directions.
B. Winds from different E. When the air moves.

C. The vortex of the wind.

 in the sky is cold and D will inspire
12. "The air higher up
E. will affect
heavy, so it sinks."
The undelined word refers to.. 16. Leaves.. . up of a bunch of tiny cells where
the air D. the rain photosynthesis happens.
A
B. the sky E. the surtace A. is made D makes
C. the cold water B. are made E. making
This text ls for questlons 13 to 15. C. made

Individuals migrate because they think 17. Most plants and animals take in air, use the
lives or those oxygen in it and give out another gas, carbon
that they can improve their own
of their families by doing so. dioxide. This process is called
Factors such as poverty, lack of A. digestion
economic opportunity, land shortage and low
B. evaporation
living standards at home function as push
factors, while prosperity, opportunity, available C. photosynthesis
employment and higher living standards D. perspiration
in the place of destination are pull factors.
Migrants have to consider general factors such
E. respiration
as the cost of travel and acoommodation, the This incomplete text is for numbers 18 to 20.
chances of finding work and the prevailing
wage rates in the destination area compared A blizzard is a winter storm that includes both
with those in the home area. They will also be snow and wind. Blizzards have winds of at
swayed by individual tactors such as contacts least 56 kilometers per hour and lasting for
with relatives or friends in the destination areaas
more than three hours. They 18)
or the potential effect of their absence on the
changes in air pressure, temperature. and
household left behind. Knowledge of conditions
moisture. Blizzards happen when air masses
elsewhere is important in migration decisions
meet and form a front. Along the front, warm air
and therefore modem communications playy a
significant role. Potential migrants may leam of 19) As it rises, the air cools and
opportunities trom the media. from television clouds fom. Snow 20) by water
images or from retumees. droplets and ice crystals inside a cloud. Some
of the water droplets evaporate into a gas called
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vapor. As the vapor freezes to the ice crystais.
the crystals grow larger and begin to tall. The
13. The text is about. crystals then crash into other crystals and make
A. how to go abroad snowfiakes. Snowflakes combined with high
B. how poverty happens winds and cold temperatures make a blizzard.
C. why people become poor
D. why people migrate 18. A. cause

E. how migrants survive in other countries B causes

14. The following

C are causing
are push factors of migration,
except.. . D is caused by
E. are caused by
A. land shortage
8. available employment 19. A. meets
C. low living standards B rises
D. poverty C. grows
E. lack of economic opportunity D makes
E. leaves
15. The individual factors also.. the
migrants,
.

such as contacts with relatives and the 20. A forms

effects of their absence in their family. B. happen
A. will be swayed C. occur
B. will impress D. is made
C. will support
E. are formed
B. Answer the following questlons clearly and correctlyl
1. Montion
the general structures of
explanation text!

2. Write two facts about nature with

simple present tensel

Write passive sentencus without the doer with the

3 following verbs!
a. create

b. block

4. Translate the following sentences into Indonesian!

is caused known as the greenhouse effect.
a. Global warming by a phenomenon

b. It is estimated that there are around 1,800 thunderstorms that occur across our planet every day.

5. Write a short explanation about a natural disaster that you know!