The role that the geographic location played that helped Malaysia develop is that Malaysia is located at the equator. About four-fifths of Malaysia is covered in tropical rain forest and is home to about 15,000 species of plants and trees. Since Malaysia is located at the equator, the farms are able to flourish the whole year and tropical fruits are able to survive. This helps the Malaysian sell the fruits throughout the year and earn money.
Malaysia's development originally came from the sea. It is a peninsula, so there are also a lot of ships docking at ports.The people quickly acquired a skill and reputation as sailors and navigators.The people also traded. In the modern times, Malaysia has manufactured many things. It is an important source of palm oil. Palm oil is used for cooking and contains beta-carotene, which makes the color red. Palm oil is extracted from palm trees.
Malaysia also produced tin. They started mining for it in the 1840s and a century later, they supplied about half the world. The tin was used to make the containers for food cans. Rubber was also what helped Malaysia develop. When the American automobile industry expanded, the rubber was used to make tires. Malaysia has the 14th largest natural gas reserves. It is one of the industry that has made Malaysia rich. They also sell timbers. Workers cut down trees from the jungles to make logs and sell them.
The role of the geographic location of where Malaysia is located plays a very important role. Not only did it give the country good weather, but also Malaysia got situated in a good natural resource site. Tin, rubber, and petroleum are all of the natural resources that helped Malaysia develop. The climate helped grow many varieties of fruits and the trees in the tropical forest helped make timber.
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October 13, 2010
My day went off fine. The sky was sunny, the ground nice and muddy, who would have thought that this day would turn into a nightmare? I started my day off normally. I woke up, flopped here and there, doing my stuff, visiting my fellow neighbors. I had heard that some kind of animal would come to plant mangrove trees, but who could guess what havoc they would wreck? Well, we thought they were harmless and would quickly get back to dry *shudder* land. How wrong we were!
I guess it was about mid-morning when the animals came. They had those boots on, and they were wearing something called clothes! The only hair you could see on their body was on their heads. My friend, Shelly, said they were some kind of species called humans, evolved from primates. When they first stepped on a log, everything went fine. Some of them were picking crabs off the ground and one of the humans pointed at me and yelled something like,"Mud skipper!" Suddenly, one of those humans slipped! Squish! I heard a scream of fright from one of the crabs! I looked at the person that fell. He was stuck in the mud, sinking down faster and faster. I saw the other humans trying to help, but they got stuck instead! Usually, I would have laughed, but I was so scared that I would be stepped on! "Come on, Sammy, let's get away from these animals before they crush us!" Shelly exclaimed, trembling from head to tail.
The animals were giants! it was no wonder that they sunk so quickly! One of the larger giants went to help some female human, but ended up slipping and fell with a large CRACK! I bet he's going to be very sore tomorrow. Those humans started out laughing and yelling, but I guess they didn't like getting dirty, because as more and more people fell, they started to get quiet and tried to quickly get out of the mud. Some of them didn't even plant a mangrove sapling! They were all sinking, and I wanted to laugh, but right then, my sister got stepped on! My father told me that this happened once, but the animals (humans) stayed on road and quickly got off. But, now, tons of humans come and ruin our peaceful home. I was horrified!
The humans broke several mangrove saplings, killed a lot of my friends, and they didn't even try to make things better! The first group of humans left a lot of those things called boots. I got stuck in one, and they smell nasty! They sat down on logs where several mud skippers lived, stomped around, and sank toward the bottom. They didn't even think of the animals they were killing. I heard that there are more humans coming. I had hoped that they wouldn't come back! I hope that the next group of those humans would go somewhere else instead!
By: Sammy Skipper
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