ENBE PROJECT ONE
WOO WEN JIAN, FLINT STONER 0315123
MY SITE
My site is within the red color outline .
MY SITE
Side view for my site
MY SITE
A lot of pebbles can be found at the site
There’s a sand platform in the middle of the site.
Insects that I’ve investigated on
ANIMAL SPECIE
Water strider Scientific name: Gerridae
Animal specie’s details
Scientific classification
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Insecta
Order Hemiptera
Family Gerridae
Water strider
Life cycle of a water strider
Ability to walk on water: Gift of a long,
hydrophobic legs to help them stay above water.
The tiny hairs on the legs provide both a hydrophobic surface as well as a larger surface area to spread their weight over the water.
Nature ability
Reproduction
Image taken from http://www.thefigandthewasp.com/?p=137
Blackmailing The male water strider(w.s.) will
black mail the female w.s. by tapping his legs on the surface of the water that will lure predator to come.
During the foreplay, male mounts on top of the female and if she resists, he will tap the water surface more actively and since the female is underneath, there’s a high chance she’ll be eaten by the predator.
So most likely she will have no choice but to follow what the male wants
Plant that I’ve investigated on
PLANT SPECIE
Sow thistleScientific name: Cicerbita alpina
Plant specie’s details
Scientific classification
Kingdom Plantae
Order Asterales
Family Asteraceae
Tribe Cichorieae
Subtribe Lactucinae
The branches for the
plant is often thin. The leaves are thin
as well. Most of the yellow
flowers located at the end of the branches
Sow Thistle
Flowers: To attract insects
Leaves: To absorb sunlight
Roots: To hold firm to the ground
Flowers are insect
pollinated. Vegetative
reproduction occurs via its rhizome system.
Reproduction
The Five Senses
What I saw
Morning I saw a river with clear water
and are free flowing. The river is very shallow. At the top of the river
stream, there’s a tiny water fall with a lots of big rocks around it.
Night Saw an eclipse of the
moon Pitch black at the site
Around the resort’s lobby (morning) Bird chirping sounds Sounds created by cicada
Around the site (morning) Water flowing sound Rustling sounds produced by the leaves
What I hear
Around the resort’s lobby (night) Heard some cricket’s sound Frogs’ croaking sounds
Around the site (night) Heard cricket’s sound Frogs’s croaking sounds Owl’s “hoo-hoo-hoo” sounds
What I hear
Pebble Licked a pebble that found at
the site. Taste: Tasteless
What I tasted
River water Tasted a little bit
clear river water Taste: Tasteless
FRESH AIR EVERYWHERE, especially in the woods
What I smelt
What I felt
The water in the river is very chilly
It’s windy during the nighttime
It feels very sandy when
walking on the river. Sometimes there’s tiny rocks
in it as well, which made my legs felt irritating
What I felt
There’s some woods in the river covered with mosses.
It feels very smooth to touch
Understanding of ecosystem
The ecology is a biodiversity which included
both living things and non-living things. Living things such as insects, birds, fishes and
etc. While non-living things are things like sand,
water, rocks and etc. In most of the case, the non-living things will
provide shelters to the living things and we can also say that it will becomes ones living thing’s habitat.
Journey
Day one
The students gathered at the Taylor’s University
around 7 morning. Had some delays due to some students are missing
in action and depart to Riverstone Eco Resort around the time of 8.15 am
We reached out destination, Riverstone Eco Resort around 9.30, slightly off the time planned at the itinerary.
The lobby of the resort
After the students put all their stuff at their
dorms, we gathered at a open air hall and our lecturers talked about the brief of the ENBE project one.
After the lecturers are done, The worker, Miss Amirah gave a short talk about the do and don’t as well as rules and regulation that we have to follow throughout the whole stay at Riverstone Eco Resort.
Around 10.15 am, we’re off to the surrounding to select our own sites in our own small units.
My unit took the site (left) after
looking around the surrounding for awhile.
The reason we picked that as our site is because it consists of both land and water, and there’s a sand platform at the middle of the site as well.
On the side note, we could found many different kinds of species around the site too.
After we marked out site and look around it, we had our first lunch at the resort at 12pm.
The lunch was great and we continued our job at the site around 1pm.
Finding different kind of species, sketching the sites, collecting materials to create a logo during the night and etc, everything was going smoothly, until…
We started to play at the river around 4 in the
afternoon!!
The students in the river kept on trick the other students
that just came back from their site about we are having a “meeting” and when they came down, we just splashed them with water.
We ended the fun session about 6pm and we
went back to our dorm to get washed and then we had our dinner that provided by the lady in charged of Riverstone Eco Resort.
After that, we were asked to start creating the logo with the materials we got from the nature in the morning.
The logo that we’ve created.
9.00pm, we’re all worn out but still all the units did the logos and presented them to the others around 9.30pm.
After the presentation, we had a short tutorial
sessions with our lecturers at the lobby of the resort.
We had our supper, some bubur chacha and deserts as well before the light’s out due to the management will turn off the electricity generators.
Even though the lights were offed around 12 am, some of the students are still awake and most of them went to sleep after 1am.
Day Two
We woke up around 7 in the
morning on the next day. After washed ourselves, we
had a stretching session in front of the resort’s lobby.
After that, we had our breakfast and then we went for a obstacle challenges and river rafting organized by the management people.
My unit skipped the activities
because we had a few things left to do with the site, if we don’t skipped it, we wont be having enough time to do it anymore.
Around 9am, my unit went back to our site for the last site observation.
Besides that, we used the time we had left to filmed our ENBE project 1 video.
Around 11.30am we all went back to the
dorms to pack our stuff and ready to gathered at the lobby.
The lady in charged provide us a lunch too before we went back to Taylor's university.
We took some group photos before we left the resort around 1.00pm.
After the trip
After the trip, we started to look up info related to our
findings to do our group part, “The Info graphic boards”. We did those boards with the theme “Reproduction”.
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