Monday 23 January 2012

Relationship of climate and vegetation

This week, explore the outdoors in detailed ways. Stand at the sea edge to examine the vegetation; as we cross the mountain, look at the grass and shrub types; when we're in town, examine the planting; in the botanic gardens, let's look at the trees.

Go through each of the charts at the Hong Kong Observatory site, looking for temperature range, rainfall patterns, humidity levels, wind speeds, cloud covers and so on.

How do these patterns affect the vegetation you'd expect to find in this particular sub-tropical environment?

Think of your travels in tropical rainforests in Australia; what was similar and what was different?

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