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Frage | Antworten |
What is Employment examples within the rainforest? | Logging Mining Tourism |
Name all causes of deforestation in Malaysia | Logging, Commercial Farming, Roads, population pressure, Subsistence farming and mineral extraction, |
What is population pressure? | Areas deforested to make way for homes due to growing population |
What is the environmental value of the rainforest? | Biodiversity, prevent climate change, lower temperature, fresh water |
Name 2 social values of the rainforest | Employment, Energy, Resources, Medicines |
What is Debt Reduction in terms of the rainforest? | The world bank cancels a countries debt if they preserve the rainforest |
What is agroforestry | Growing crops in strips between existing trees so the nutrients in the soil are maintained. |
What is Selective Logging? | Only cutting down the older and more valued trees and late replanting new trees in their place. |
What is the benefit of Ecotourism? | Brings income and helps preserve the rainforest as thats what people are coming to see. |
Define Logging | Chopping down trees for high value wood such as mahogany and teak. |
Define Climate | The average weather conditions over a long period of time |
Define Fossil fuels | Fuels that create energy when burnt |
Define agriculture | The growing of crops and raising animals such as cattle. |
Give one way we can see evidence of climate change. | Ice cores, Glacial retreat, global temperature data and paintings/diaries. |
Summarise the Green house effect. | Radiation released from sun. Enters atmospjere. Some is absorebed by land, heating air around it. Some escapes into space. GHG's absorb rest and later re-emit |
Where are rainforests typically found? | The tropics |
Where are Deserts typically found? | The equator |
Name the three main elements of t he nutrient cycle. | Biomass-> Litter -> Soil -> |
What is inbetween biomass and litter in the nutrient cycle? | Littering |
What is inbetween litter and soil in the nutrient cycle? | Decomposition |
What is inbetween biomass and soil in the nutrient cycle? | Plant uptake |
Define biotic | Living parts in an ecosystem |
What is an adaptation of a fennec fox? | Large ears |
What is an adaptation of a Jerboa? | Small feet |
Name an adaptation of a porcupine | Nocturnal |
Name an adaptation of a plant in the dessert. | Spikes, Water storage, tap roots, waxy cuticle. |
Where are deciduos forests found? | Between the tropics and arctic circle |
What are the milankovitch cycles? | Obliquity, eccentricity, preccesion |
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