Elective Geography Journal Entry #3

On 25 January 2011,Mr kwek showed us a video and taught us how plants adapt to their surrounding climate such as the trees in tropical monsoon forests which has adapted to tap water sources deep under ground due to irregular rainfall throughout the year by having deep tap roots.We also learnt futher on about the characteristics and structure of the Monsoon Forests and the different types of roots.

Elective Geography Journal Entry #2

On 20 January 2011,Ms Lee taught us further on the same topic we learnt by Mr kwek on 11 January 2011. We learnt how certain vegetation are suited to the climate at the area and what vegetations are found at certain areas according to the climate such as Tropical rainforests which are mainly found between 10 degrees north and 10 degrees south of the equator. We also learnt how certain plants have adapted to certain conditions and certain graphs such as the climograph to show relationships between precipitation and temperatures.

Elective-Geography Journal Entry

On  11 January 2011, Mr Kwek, taught us on the different types of natural vegetation. Some of which are as follows. Natural vegetation are plants that grow naturally without human interference. Natural vegetation plays an important role in an ecosystem and animals and people depend quite heavily on it. Nature vegetation then can be further classified into three major groups which are forests, grasslands and deserts. These vegetation types are called biomes which is the living part of the ecosystem. Under the forest biome, there are the 'Tropical rainforest', 'Temperate deciduous forest' and 'Coniferous forest'. Under the grasssland biome, there are the 'Tropical grassland' and 'Temperate grassland'. Under the desert biome, there are the 'Hot desert vegetation' and 'Cold desert vegetation'(Tundra). The influences of climate on vegetation growth are temperature and precipitation. We also learnt about the structures of forests and how they are classified into different layers and what are their characteristics and the plants in it.