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

I. Pre-reading: a. What do you know about the chaos theory? Nothing

b. What do you think the text will be about? An explanation of the chaos theory

c. Write a list of five words (minimum) that you think you can find in the text you will read. Star, System, Scientist, Discovery, Maths  Now click on the following link, then check your previous responses. Once you finish, please answer the questions below the picture []

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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.) System, Discovery, Scientist

2. Underline all the definitions you find in the text.

Chaos Theory(term being defined), theory(general class word) describing the complex and unpredictable motion or dynamics of systems that are sensitive to their initial conditions.(characteristics)

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.

Chaotic systems are mathematically deterministic—that is, they follow precise laws, but their irregular behavior can appear to be random to the casual observer.

The unpredictability of chaotic systems arises due to their sensitivity to their initial conditions, such as their initial position and velocity.  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

THAT: It is referent to the complex and unpredictable motion

THEIR INITIAL CONDITIONS makes reference to the initial conditions of the dynamics of systems__**

b. Until recently, it was believed that if the dynamics of a system behaved unpredictably, **__it__** was due to random external influences

IT makes reference to the "system that behaved unpredicably".

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.…”

THE FORMER: this word make reference to the initial conditions

THE LATTER: makes reference to the final phenomena

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.

THEM: makes reference to the "most scientists"

e. He demonstrated visually that there was structure in his chaotic weather model __**that**__, __**when plotted**__ ...

THAT: reference to the chaotic weather model

WHEN PLOTTED: reference to the "structure"

6. What new aspects did you discover about the chaos theory?

I learn about the phenomenon of the chaos theory. Also about the predicted ways, and how they always have an error in the measurements.

7. Is the chaos theory related to real life aspects? Explain

Yes. We can use this theory as a methapor, because we can't predict something that it not happen yet. We can estimate some results but we will never know how lives going to deveolp until we try and find out.