Making Decision in life –> NSWE

When you making decisions in life, which compass point do you lean towards to?

When I making decision in life, I often leaning toward ECONOMY. For example, when I am buying something, I would be thinking about the price, how much does it cost, is it worth buying. Even though if I want it so much, but the price is too expensive and I think it doesn’t worth buying then I will choose not to buy, because the money that I am using is not mine, but my parents’, so I need to think carefully before spend the money. And because of this, that’s why I love to shopping when there is promotion or discount.

Reflection: My Oct Break & ESS

During the October break, I went to the Cartoon Network Amazone with my friends. It’s a new-open water park in Pattaya. I will be connecting this to the ESS by linking it to the COMPASS. There were a lot people, not only Thais, but also many foreigners too. This can be called as a society because people are playing, talking, and sharing fun and happiness with each other. Cartoon Network Amazone can be link to economy as well because it’s a type of business where people need to pay money to get into the water park. And lastly, this can be link to wellbeing because we are all happy and enjoy playing around the water park, and also it’s healthy because we get to exercise and swim.

Making Environmental Decisions + Class Policy Reflection

Why isn’t “Making Environmental Decisions” the way to keep a healthy relationship with our environment? Isn’t it supposed to be the focus? How can it be detrimental at the same time?

• Making Environmental Decisions isn’t the way to keep healthy relationship with our environment because we shouldn’t just focus on one aspect, but instead we have to look at it as a whole in order maintain a balanced relationship with our environment. Other thing is that we suppose to let the environment occur naturally, since the word “environment” refer to the nature around us.

How can “Making Environmental Decisions” people communicate with other stakeholders of the society (people who simply do NOT care about the environment)?

• Making Environmental Decisions people can communicate with other stakeholders of the society by spreading and share their ideas. For example, making video showing how the environment is getting worse each day, making advertisement, making, or come up with a campaign about saving the environment. The more we share and spread, the more people will know. And eventually, everyone will start taking action in saving our environment.

What is a better approach then just “Making Environmental Decisions”?

• A better approach then just “Making Environmental Decisions” would be “Making Sustainability Decision for a Better Environment”

Reflect on what happened in class today. Review class policy. We will re-address mutual respect in the classroom.

• Start from the beginning of the class, when the bell rang, people will talking to each others and wasn’t ready to study.
• When Mrs.Cindy was talking and teaching, we didn’t pay attention and keep talking to our friends.
• When Mrs.Cindy asked questions, no one answer.
• These are very disrespectful to the teacher, and we shouldn’t let this happen again. As a student, we need to learn how to respect the teacher and pay attention when the teacher is teaching.

Reflection1: Learner Profile

My strongest: Open-minded

My strongest area is open-minded. I believe that everyone have different thought and opinion, even though sometime I have different perspectives from my friends, I would still respect their ideas and try to understand the way they perceive things.

My weakest: Communicators My weakest area is communicators. I am not really good in communicating and sharing ideas among the group. I often think that people might not like my ideas, and therefore I don’t have confidence in sharing. I believe it’s very important to be a good communicator and I will need to improve in this area because this will help me in working as team work more productively.

ESS Personalized definition

In my personal opinion, I would define “ESS” or “Environmental Systems and Societies” as the interaction between human and environment. We learn about the social issues that are going on around us, whether if it is positive or negative, we all help and try our best to protect our environment and society. By having a better environment will bring us to a better world, and we will be having a better lives.

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Biome

Definition of biome

• A biome is a collection of ecosystem sharing similar climatic conditions.
• A biome has distintive abiotic factors and species which distinguish it from other biomes.
• Rates of photosynthesis determine the productivity of an ecosystem – the more productive a biome, the higher its NNP.
• Rainfall(water), temperature, and insolation(sunlight) are key climate controls that determine the distribution, function and structure of biomes because they determine rates of photosynthesis.

Tri-cellular model of atmospheric circulation 

• Tri-cellular model helps explain differences in pressure belts, temperature and precipitation that exist across the globe.
• It divided into 3 major cells: Hadley, Ferrel and polar.
• Hadley cells control weather over the tropics, where the air is warm and unstable.

Tropical rainforest

• Have constant hight temperature and hight rainfall throughout the year.
• Lies in a band around the equator within the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
• Tropical rainforest are estimated to produce 40% of NPP of terrestrial ecosystems.
• Rainforest are broad evergreen forests with a very high diversity of animals and plaints.
• A rainforest may have up to 480 species of tree in single hectare.
• The high diversity of plants is because of the high levels of productivity resulting from high rainfall and insolation.
• Although rain forests are highly productive, much of the inorganic nutrients needed for growth are locked up in the trees and are not found in the soil, which is low in nutrients.

Deserts

• Deserts are found in bands at latitudes of approximately 30˚N and S.
• They cover 20-30% of the land surface.
• Rainfall maybe unevenly distributed which lead to the limits rates of photosynthesis and rates of NPP are very low.
• Low productivity means that vegetation is scarce.
• Decomposition levels are low because of the dryness of the air and lack of water.
• Xerophytic is the species of plant that can exist in desert.
• Cacti have reduced their surface area for transpiration by converting leaves into spines.
• Animals have also adapted to desert conditions. Snake and reptiles are the commonest vertebrates. Mammals have adapted to live underground and emerge at the coolest parts of the day.

Tundra

• Tundra is found at high latitudes, adjacent to ice margins, where insolation is low.
• Water maybe locked up in ice for months at a time and this combined with little rainfall means that water is limiting factor.
• Lack of light and rainfall mean that the rates of photosynthesis and productivity are low.
• Temperature are very low for most of the year. Therefore the recycling of nutrients is low too.
• Most of the world’s tundra is found in the north polar region.
• During winter months, temperatures can reach -50˚C – all life activity is low in these harsh conditions.
• In Summer, the Sun is out almost 24 hours a days, so levels of insolation and temperature both increase leading to plant growth.
• Tundra is the youngest of all biomes as it as formed after the retreat of glaciers 10 000 years ago.

Temperate forest 

• Temperate forest are largely found between 40˚ and 60˚N of the equator.
• They are found in seasonal areas where winters are cold and summers are warm, unlike tropical rainforest.
• 2 different tree types found are found in temperate forest
  • Evergreen
    • have protection against the cold winters (thicker leaves or needles)
  • Deciduous
    • leaves would suffer frost damage and so shut down in winter.

Grassland

• Grasslands are found on every continent except Antarctica, and cover about 16% of the Earth’s surface.
• They develop where there is not enough precipitation to support forests, but enough to prevent deserts forming.
• Grasses have a wide diversity but low levels of productivity.
• Grasslands away from the sea have widely fluctuating temperatures which can limit the survival of animals and plants.
• Grasses from beneath the surface and during cold periods can remain dormant until the ground warms.