Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Geography Revision
- Sustainable Logging
- Sustainable logging is an
environmentally safe way
of cutting down trees
- Sustainable logging is when one tree is cut down
and new ones are replanted which means the
ground stays fertile
- Examples of the main tropical rainforests
- Amazon
- The Congo
- Sinharaja
- Daintree
- Valdivian
- Santa Elena
- Kinabalu
- Tongass
- The layers of the rainforest
- Names and height they are found at
- Shrub Layer
- Under 10m
- Under Canopy
- 10-20m
- Canopy
- 20-30m
- Emergents
- Over 30m
- Deforestation
- Deforestation is what is happening to rainforests all
over the world right now
- In places like the Amazon rainforest illegal
logging is going on and the loggers are not
being environmentally friendly while they
are logging and are not making sure the
trees that they cut down are sustainable
- The 5 main ecosystems
- Tropical Rainforest
- A tall, dense forest
found in hot, wet
climates
- Tundra
- A vast, flat, treeless Arctic region of Europe,
Asia, and North America in which the subsoil
is permanently frozen
- Hot Desert
- A dry, often sandy region of little
rainfall, extreme temperatures and
sparse vegetation.
- Savanna
- A grassy plain in tropical
and subtropical regions,
with a few trees
- Deciduous Forest
- A type of forest characterised
by trees that seasonally shed
their leaves