Question

Do the activity below and answer the questions following it. Embracing a Tree Go outside (to the nearest park or garden) and embrace a tree, close your eyes and listen to the sounds around you for five minutes without talking.
Answer the questions. 1. What sounds did you hear? 2. Which of the sounds you heard are artificial and which are natural? 3. Which of the sounds are pleasant to listen to and which are not? Explain why. 4. Describe the natural sounds. What do the wind, leaves, birds, stream, water, grass do? You can choose from the following verbs: click, snort, shuffle, blow, whistle, chirp, rustle, splash. 5. What is the effect of noise pollution on humans, animals and birds?

Answer 1

1)I could hear cars, birds, leaves and the wind.

2)The natural sounds are the sounds of birds, leaves and the wind. The artificial sounds are the sounds of the cars.

3)The natural sounds were pleasant because they were soothing, but the sounds of the cars were not , because they were loud.

4)The wind blows, the birds chirp, the leaves shuffle, the water and the stream splash and the grass rustles.

5) Loud noises can stress humans and also in some cases it can cause heart diseases. For animals, it can affect their senses, especially in the case of those which use sound to navigate, or those which use specific sounds to signal different actions. In the case of birds, it can affect their nesting habits.