Hong Kong (香港 )Hong Kong will take your breath away!

A PRESENTATION MADE BYChristina Pedroche

Hong Kong in the world map

The geography of Hong Kong primarily consists of three main territories

Hong Kong IslandKowloon Peninsula

and the New Territories

The Hong Kong map

Geographical locationAmount of precipitationThe climate and prevailing weather The dominant vegetation (FLORA)Common animals (FAUNA)

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION

AMOUNT OF PRECIPITATION

CLIMATE AND PREVAILING WEATHERHumid Subtropical Climate

Countries with this kind of climate experience hot, humid summers and chilly, mild winters.

75- 125cm per yearDuring the months of June, July and August, rainfall is present and typhoons are likely to occur.

Eastern AsiaThe island of Hong Kong is located just south of the Tropic of Cancer. Bodies of water surround it including the Taiwan Straits, the South China Sea, and the Pacific Ocean.

Dominant vegetation+ interesting

facts

COMMON NAME

SCIENTIFIC NAME

Marsh Pennywort

Hydrocotyle Vulgaris

COMMON NAMEChekiang Machilus

SCIENTIFIC NAMEMachilus Chekiangensis

COMMON NAMECeylon Hill Gooseberry

SCIENTIFIC NAMERhodomyrtus Tomentosa

Rhodomyrtus tomentosa is an evergreen shrub with its fruit edible.

Hydrocotyle Vulgaris is an aquatic plant that is easy to weed although it is excellent in an informal pond setting.

Machilus Chekiangensis can be found in the province of Zhejiang in China and it prefers an environment that is warm and wet.

Common animals+ interesting

facts

Grus japonensis also known as the Red-crowned crane is among the largest and most beautiful cranes in the world. They always travel in pairs and perform a courtship dance during the breeding season from

March to July.

Pithecia pithecia is the scientific name for the

White-faced Saki. They are known to leap as

much as 10 meters and that’s how they got the title “Flying monkeys”.

Geochelone radiata or the Radiated Tortoise

prefer places with warm climate and when the temperature drops to 16° C, they go ahead

and hibernate.

Why this biome is important to me… • Temperate Deciduous Forests are areas with hot summers

and mild winters. The four seasons are present namely Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. This biome is important to me especially to my course which tackles mainly on Tourism because the countries with this kind of biome are really popular like my choice of country, Hong Kong. Once I’ve already known everything there is to know in this biome, I would know the months when it is advisable to go and when I’m already working, I can tell that to the tourists or even to my peers who would want to go. Also, this is important to my major, Culinary Arts, because some fruits and vegetables only grow in this kind of environment, so it would be best if I know those fruit and vegetables so that I would know where to get the best of them.

Pictures of my trip to Hong Kong

Sources

•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Hong_Kong

•http://reference.allrefer.com/world/facts/climate.html

•https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/hk.html

•http://www.hkherbarium.net/herbarium/Topics/Vegetation/hk_vegetation_e.htm

•http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/parks/hkzbg/en/animals.php