First, go think about how different your lives are from the longhouse tribe we visited. Where do they work? How do they live together? What do they eat? How are their living spaces and sanitation like?
Share about how you feel in the comments box below!
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Riverside lunch
You study about the Geography of food right? It talks about developed countries and less developed countries having difference in food production and consumption. You also study about how technology has affected food production.
Let's talk about consumption here. How do the locals differ from Singaporeans in food consumption?
Where do we get our food from? Where do they get theirs?
How is the food we eat different (both at home and when we're out shopping)?
How about the cooking method?
Good to read
Singapore gets its food from all over the world. We've been particularly hit by the rise in food prices. Try asking your parents how much the price of rice has risen in the past 2 months.
Newspaper report on Singapore food sources
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River features
Do you still remember how the longboat twist-and-turned its way through the river on our way to the longhouse?
The river twist-and-turns (meanders) as a natural process. You should have noticed that at the inner part of the bend, there is always deposition of pebbles. This occurs because water is slower at the inner bend.
Go to this website. In the second photo, you can see that pebbles are deposited at the inner bend because the water does not have enough energy to carry them and has to "drop" them. At the outer bend, water is faster and causes erosion. You can see the exposed tree roots after soil has been eroded.
See this animation for explanation on how the above process creates meandering. You'll also see what's an ox-bow lake.
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