Chapter 1: The Morning After
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Chapter 2: An Unpleasant Shower
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Chapter 3: Not Even The Frogs
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Chapter 4: Almost Buried!
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Chapter 5: A Lucky Lightning
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Chapter 6: Don't Play With Electricity
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Chapter 7: Fire in the School
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Chapter 8: Trash Can Be Beautiful
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Chapter 9: Tic-Tac Boom
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Chapter 10: Street Pollution
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Chapter 2 - An unpleasant shower (3)
| ELPHI |
I’m
afraid IT IS possible, Bindu… You see, a tsunami is a giant wave provoked by
movements of the plaques of the earth. |
| MAKI |
Earth,
not water? |
| ELPHI |
Say that you have a container full of
water placed over a carpet. What happens if I pull the carpet? |
| MONKITO |
(LAUGHING) You get
wet! |
| ELPHI |
When I pull the carpet underneath, the water in the surface moves like
“waves” that spill out the container. |
| MAKI |
So
the tsunami is provoked by an earthquake! |
| ELPHI |
Exactly! And
that earthquake can actually take place very very far away. |
| BINDU |
Miss, if it continues to rain like this, can we have another tsunami? |
| ELPHI |
No,
Bindu, there is no relationship between rains and tsunamis. |
| MONKITO |
Are you
sure? |
| ELPHI |
Positive.
What happens if I pour more water in the container without pulling the carpet? |
| MAKI |
Water
spills all over! |
| MONKITO |
And you
get in trouble with your mother! |
| ELPHI |
Water
spills all over, but no waves… |
| MAKI |
No
tsunamis… |
| VOICE |
But
teacher, if you put a lot of water in the container, the carpet will get wet… |
| ELPHI |
That’s different… That's a flood, which happens when the water of a river goes over its normal stretch. |
| MAKI |
Like
the water in the container! |
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