Shooting the Everlasting Storm

When dangerous storms approach, most people flee.  Not 21 year-old Jonas Pientek.  His popular lightning photographs result from staying put.

In this sentence, the term staying put means . . .

• moving to a different location

• looking for a safe place

• staying in the same place

• hiding

The menacing atmosphere ignites Pientek’s passion and creativity.

In this sentence, the term ignite means . . .

• to make a feeling or emotion very strong

• to ignore a feeling or emotion

• to discourage a feeling or emotion

• to disapprove of a feeling or emotion

My interest in weather started the same year as my interest started in photography when a tornado ravaged parts of a town close to my hometown. The word ravaged means . . .

• to touch

• to improve

• to destroy

• to visit

Being published in great magazines such as the New York Times is a great feeling for me because I think that people acknowledge my work and people like my work.

The verb acknowledge means . . .

• to ignore

• to recognize

• to love

• to dislike

It’s an enormous body of very, very warm water, approximately 16 – 17,000 kilometers of warm, very low-lying water.

The word approximately means . . .

• exactly

• about

• less than

• more than