Elective Geography Journal #6

On 22 February, Mr Kwek gave us notes on coniferous forests/taiga. He went through the notes, teaching us where coniferous forests are found and certain conditions that the forest face and how they adapt to it. We learn how latitudes affect temperature and what happens when certain parts of the Earth gets high or low density of incident rays from the Sun. The coniferous forests are also not as dense as tthe others and the trees grow in pure strands where they are very little different species growing there. We also learnt that male cones produces pollen while female cones produce seeds.

Elective Geography Journal Entry #5

On 17 February 2011, Ms Lee went through with us on the answers for the workbook and the worksheet 1 on natural vegetation. Afterwards, she taught us that under Tropical climate, there are two categories which are equatorial and tropical monsoon. Rainforest is categorised under equatorial, Mangrove forests along the coastal areas  is under equatorial and tropical monsoon and Tropical Monsoon forests is under tropical monsoon.

Elective Geography Journal Entry #4

On February 7 2011, Mr kwek gave us an article.The article showed us on people with typical views such as the being mangrove forests being ugly due to common fears of bugs and unappreciation.Someone who thought mangroves ugly and was afraid of a snake dropping of his head finally managed to gather up the courage to visit the mangrove with his family. Instead of find it ugly and dangerous,he actually found that it was beautiful.
Personally,I think it will be better for people to pay a visit to mangrove forests before deciding on whether they like or not.It takes time to spot the hidden beauty of the forest.Mangrove trees grow where some trees have never grown before. They are able to survive conditions that would kill normal forests thanks to adaptations.They are also a great help when violent storms that hit the coasts such as tsunamis which they protect those living nearby by reducing the force of impact and damage.