Credits and Acknowledgement

Credits:

Photographer: Pok Shun
Part A : Danish
Part B&D : Pok Shun
Part C&F : Jing Yi and Eileen


Acknowledgement:


http://www.wikipedia.org/
http://www.google.com.sg/
http://www.hobart.k12.in.us/jkousen/Biology/impact.html
http://www.newagepublishers.com/samplechapter/000262.pdf
http://www.egyankosh.ac.in/bitstream/123456789/36528/1/Unit-6.pdf
http://library.thinkquest.org/C007231/intro.htm
http://www.tutorvista.com/content/science/science-ii/environment/activities-environment.php#
http://greenliving.nationalgeographic.com/pollution-affect-living-things-including-humans-2193.html
http://www.nparks.gov.sg/

Part D: Conservation efforts at Jurong Lake Park

  Jurong Lake Park is a park where many activities come in handy. There are many facilities such as the children playgrounds and the adventure park. Why won’t conservation starts in such a nice place? The National Park Board has been trying their very best to conserve the natural environment that Jurong Lake Park hold. This proves that the government and the people still concern about Jurong Lake Park. Signs of warnings are put up to advice people not to destroy the environment but as shown in the picture, some people still use live bait to fish at the jetty. This should be stop.

  Plant pruning are spotted too. Though it is to control the growth of the trees, but over pruning will just become from ‘controlling’ to ‘destroying’.

  In conclusion, we think that the authorities alone are not enough. We people, no matter Singaporeans or tourists, should also do our part in conserving these natural habitats for the animals and plants.

Part C: Impact of Man on Jurong Lake Park

IMPACTS OF MAN ON Jurong Lake Park 


 1) Littering  
Humans polluted the environment by casually dumping litter, example, sweet wrappers, can drinks, cigarette butts, and plastic bags and bottles caps on the ground or into the lake. As such, they turned the originally clean and hygienic park into a dirty one. The lake is also filled with murky water, affecting aquatic life greatly. And as a result, many fishes were unable to adapt to their new environment and died. Our school, JSS (Jurong Secondary School) and together with the JSS teachers and students had noticed the various problems and decided to raised these issues. I hope by doing so, many park users will be more aware of their doings in the park.  How is littering going to affect the park?  Litters like plastic bags, decomposed at a very slow rate in the environment. The plastic will produce chemicals when they slowly decompose and the chemicals are harmful to the plants. The animals eating the plants will be affected in a way or another too. They also pollute the water and the marine animals living in the lake. The plastic bags can trap fishes in them and thus, due to lack of oxygen and food, the fishes will gradually die. Nevertheless, litter also destroys the beauty and scenery of the park which make people avoid these areas. We hope that there will be more users in the park and we can join forces together to protect the park for more people to see and know.


2) Deforestation
  Trees are very important as they produce oxygen for humans to breathe. Without them, we are not able to survive. Unfortunately, man is capable of introducing large amount of carbon dioxide into the environment through human activities which put an extra burden on nature in the ecosystems, which can upset the balanced state of the natural cycles.  Some human activities include deforestation. It is evident that the increasing exploitation of land for human use greatly reduces the area of each wildlife habitat as well as the total area surface.  Deforestation can lead to:- Lesser species diversity, due to reduced habitable surface area.- The reduction of the size of habitats and thus reduces the genetic diversity of the species living there.This has significant negative impacts on the organisms’ survival. The conditions under which the reduction of habitats often occur prevent living organisms making use of their normal ways to flee their threatened habitat. Those escape routes include migration to other habitats and adaptation to the changing environment. To make matter worse, when organisms cannot adapt to their new habitats, they may die. 

3) Oil spill

image of oil spill have been taken on Jurong Lake Park. We hope to prevent this from happening as it may affect the marine life which includes the fishes. It is a form of pollution and it is mainly due to human activities. It usually happens when products like crude oil is released from tankers, off shore platforms, drilling rigs and wells, as well as spills of refined petroleum products ( such as gasoline and diesel). It is suspected that the pollution is caused due to many oil tankers that are parked near Jurong Lake Park. The oil that is unconsciously wasted flowed into the drains which are connected to the Jurong Lake. Though oil spills can be controlled, but it may take weeks for chemical dispersion, combustion, mechanical containment and absorption. It takes weeks, months, or even years to clean up. Though it takes a long time, at least there will be a certain changes done to the environment. But even so, it will affect the marine life living in Jurong Lake Park.

Part B: Grouping and naming organisms

Part B: Grouping and naming organism

Jurong Lake Park has been a habitat for many different living organisms, both plants and animals. Organisms living in this ecosystem have different characteristics which enable them to adapt to the surroundings they live in.

Animals and plants alike, each with its own unique features are living together in their beloved home at Jurong Lake Park. We may see them often, but sometimes you will have to pay extra attention to spot some of the unique creatures that tries to play “hide-and-seek” with you.

Squirrels

Scientific classification using taxonomy	Scientific classification using taxonomy
Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Rodentia
Family	Sciuridae

Habitat: trees

Tree trunk spider

Scientific classification using taxonomy	Scientific classification using taxonomy
Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
Order	Araneae
Family	Hersiliidae

Habitat: tree trunks

Cicada

Scientific classification using taxonomy	Scientific classification using taxonomy
Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
Family	Cicadidae

Habitat: trees (especially the trunks)

Toad

Scientific classification using taxonomy	Scientific classification using taxonomy
Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chrodata
Class	Amphibia
Order	Anura

Habitat: ponds/drains

Earthworm

Scientific classification using taxonomy	Scientific classification using taxonomy
Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Annelida
Class	Clitellata
Order	Haplotaxida
Family	Megadrilacea

Habitat: muddy places where the soil is nutrition enough

 pong pong tree

Scientific classification using taxonomy	Scientific classification using taxonomy
Kingdom	Plantae
Order	Gentianales
Family	Apocynaceae
Genus	Cerbera
Species	Cerbera odollam

With these wonderful pictures of the organisms living in Jurong Lake Park, we hope that you will cherish the park and do not catch them and bring them to your home. The concept is the same as an alien bringing you to another place you don’t recognise. Also, try to spot as many unique creatures as you can too!

Part A: Introduction to Jurong Lake Park

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• Jurong Lake Park is a park full of life and activity.
• It is home to many different types of animals and plants and— sometimes are used as a recreational area for school’s co-curricular activities such as dragon-boating, cross- country and track and field.
• People in the public sometimes exercise or jog in the area and fishing is also a common activity at the lake
• Different plants and animals have taken refuge here, in the park and reproduced and made this park their home.—
• But with the deteriorating state of the Jurong Lake Park, the population of these organisms are decreasing and we must do something about it.—
• If we continue to ignore, there would be less plants and animals in the future for us to study.
• If most of the plants and animals disappeared, then the study on the blood of horse-shoe crab and plants with medicinal value will cease.—

• The Jurong Lake run, held this year 2012, was held to create awareness for  a healthy lifestyle and to promote the area as it is in the Central Business District project launched by National Development Minister, Mah Bow Tan.