Reading+Log+1

Your job will be to read the article and answer the questions given

Read the following text and answer the following questions:
 * __Reading Log 1__**

I. Pre-reading: a. What do you know about the chaos theory? b. What do you think the text will be about? c. Write a list of five words (minimum) that you think you can find in the text you will read.

Now click on the following link, then check your previous responses. Once you finish, please answer the questions below the picture http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761571605/Chaos_Theory.html

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II. Reading: 1. Read the text and check if you can find any of the words you wrote in your list (the one you wrote in the pre-reading, letter c.) 2. Underline all the definitions you find in the text. 3. In the definitions: Mark the term being defined, the general class words and the characteristics of the terms. 4. Find the descriptions if any. 5. Find what the following referents, underlined in the sentences below, refer to in the text. Be careful some items more contain more than one referent:

a. Chaos Theory, theory describing the complex and unpredictable motion or dynamics of systems __**that**__ are sensitive to **__their initial conditions__** b. Until recently, it was believed that if the dynamics of a system behaved unpredictably, **__it__** was due to random external influences c. “It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. A small error in __**the former**__ will produce an enormous error in __ **the latter** __. Prediction becomes impossible.…” d. The ramifications of Poincaré's discovery were not fully appreciated by most scientists until computers allowed **__them__** to easily model and visualize chaotic systems. e. He demonstrated visually that there was structure in his chaotic weather model __ **that** __, __**when plotted**__ ...

6. What new aspects did you discover about the chaos theory? 7. Is the chaos theory related to real life aspects? Explain