Pei Sze

At the Labrador Park, I was being able to have a first hand encounter with the natural vegetation, weathering and the coastal studies, which we had learned them during chapter 5, 9 and 11. The trip had enabled me to know that geography is a subject that can be apply to our surrounding. With this trip I also can experience the things and conceive what we had learned during lesson, from both the notes and textbook.

At the Aerial Tower, where we actually recalled on the tropic on tropical rainforest, which we had studied a few months back. While walking down the steps, we saw a lot different characteristics of the trees, like the leaves, it is smooth and waxy, thick and leathery. The roots are buttress and also shallow that we can actually see the roots sticking out of the ground. Not only just that, when we will walking in the forest, we felt that it was so stuffy. This was because that the forest was so dense that the sun actually cannot enter through the ground floor easily. All this was being learned from the textbook and with this trip we will able to get to encounter the primary experience with just not seeing them in the pictures. Other than that, we also see how the human activities were being applied in order to help to prevent soil erosion from being occurred, other than just planting a lot of plants. Along the way, all of us were like eye-openers, everything to us seems so new and all of us were busy taking down notes and photos. Also reminding each other what to write down and what pictures that we should take.
Due to that we had been there during the time of low tide, all of us were able to see the way cut platform and the whole sharp of the coast. When I saw the notch in the textbook, I thought that it is actually quite small. But the notchthat we had seen there was actually quite big, compare to the notch that I had imagined from the textbook. At the place, we also do a little experiment by calculating the wave length per minute and was ask to draw out the shape of the coastal. Along the way, we saw litters along the coastal, from this I can conclude that human activities can either conserve or destroy the beauty of nature. Along the path of the coastal, we could also see the sea walls and knowing how this man-made structure actually helps to protect the wave erosion through the textbook. I also experience the sea breeze and forgetting the backwash and swash too.

Weathering of the rocks were also been seen when we process to the next location, the cliff that we seen was reddish brown in colour. From that I had applied to what I had learned during lesson that the chemical weathering actually took place, oxidation. Lines of weakness were also been shown and other than chemical weathering took place, biological weathering also took place.

Nowadays due to the development of Singapore, many of the lands had been actually used to build houses and factories, with this, it becomes very important to preserve a original green landscape which Singapore have, instead of being turn into a concrete city. Therefore, it’s our job to preserve what we have now.

All this information that we had learned during lesson actually apply fully to this trip, therefore I could say that this trip was a beneficial one for me.