Extent & Location

Question 0

Contain 50% of the

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Worlds species.

Question 1

Found in the humid equatorial belt,

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Between 23’ N/S

Question 2

Tropical forests cover 6% of the Earths land area in 3 major regions:

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American tropical forest,
African tropical forest,
Indo-Malayan forest,

NE Aust forest - Sometimes grouped with Indo-Malayan forest.

Question 3

The extent of the earliest tropical forests can be

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Identified by the study of fossils, which shows evidence that tropical forests existed from 70 million years ago.

Question 4

Satellite imagery can measure and

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Map the distribution of tropical forests in great detail.

Question 5

Every 16 days, a Landsat satellite passes over the same point in the

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Tropical landscape, recording digital data on rainforests, savannas, rivers and mountains.

Question 6

The digital image is converted into

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A false-colour image of differ land cover types. From this a change in land cover over time can be estimated.

Question 7

An advantage to satellite imagery is

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The wavelengths used are able out penetrate cloud cover, which is frequently present in the tropics.