Marvin's+group

TASK 1 - Work in groups of 4 to review the pictures and notes that have been taken during the field trip. Select 3 features of the ecosystem and describe how they aid in the survival of specific organisms and post them on the p5scitrail wikispace. TASK 2 - Post on the same webpage the threats faced by the ecosystems and how Singaporeans can remove or minimize the threat. These are the photos for Sungei Buloh. Pick 4 and be done with it. Shang Wen prefer photos 1, 2, 3 and 5. Ryan prefer 1,2,3 and 7. There are more photos, but there are no notes and info on them or they are too blurrish. These are the best I can pick. This is for task one.





Notes by Ryan: __Horseshoe crabs__ __Archer fish__ __Fishtail Palm leaves__ __Wild pepper leaves__ __Sea Hibiscus__ __Bamboo__ __Crabs__ __Mangrove__ __Sea Holly__ __Attap tree__ __Hypocetyl__ __Ketapent__ __Apapi Bulu__ __Other animals living at Sungei Buloh__ Interesting fact about horseshoe crabs - When the people take the blue blood, they release them back into the sea. Most of them survive the ordeal because only 3-15% of their blood is taken. Task 2 - Threats faced by the ecosystem 1. Natural habitats of flora and fauna are being destroyed to build new flats and factories. 2. The air and the water have been polluted, resulting in global warming which naturally destroy the habitats of the animalsand plants. Suggestions made to improve the situation: 1. Reduce the number of foreigners in Singapore and build some nature reserves in the space that their vacated flats are built in that replicate the animals and plants natural habitats. Lower the education system so that more Singaporeans can take the hard labour jobs. In that way, the animals and plants can survive to play their part in the ecosystem. 2. Use the 3 Rs so that we can use less and produce less. In this way, less factories will be built, reducing air and water pollution, thus allowing the natural habitats of the animals and plants to survive. 3. Impose heavy fines on littering to reduce land pollution, thus reducing global warminam allowingthe natural habitats of the flora and fauna to survive.
 * Has blue blood, which is used to test toxins
 * Not classified under real crabs
 * Arthropods
 * More closely related to spiders and scorpions
 * Shoots water through a tube to catch prey
 * Eyes adapt to see from water to air without image getting distorted
 * Whitish powder on the underside of the leaves is dried before it is put in buffalo horn and shaked to make fire after its flowering branch grows lower in the jungles of Borneo and Sumatra
 * Cut into strips
 * Add fragrance
 * It is used to wrap salad and shallots in Vietnam, Laos and Thailand
 * Flowers are yellow in the day and purple in the night
 * Wood can be used for construction and medicine
 * Roots can be used to cure fever
 * Not all bamboos can be eaten by pandas
 * If shell is bivave, it is dead
 * Breathing roots stick out of the mud for extra air
 * Christmas plant
 * The seeds, when crushed can be used to cure coughs
 * 2-3 seeds, when used can be used to expel intestine worms
 * Young leaves can be used to wrap cigarattes and make fire
 * Has prop roots to hold the plant up
 * Xylocarpos granatum fruit can be used for medicine
 * Trunk produces cane
 * Seeds germinate while on parent plant
 * Seeds drops afterwards
 * Wood for making furniture or plywood
 * Excess salt comes out from leaves
 * Ashes from its wood are used to make soap
 * Olive backed sunbird
 * Hummingbirds
 * Oriental Pied hornbill
 * Cotton stainer bug
 * Giant and small mudskippers
 * Malayan water monitor
 * Turtles
 * Pink necked green pigeons
 * Storks
 * White collared kingfisher
 * Mud lobster
 * Leaf lobster
 * Colourful spiders
 * Egrets
 * Squirrels