geography

Question 1

What is tourism

Answer 1

Tourism is when someone travels outside their usual environment and spends from one night to year in a diffrent place

Question 2

How has Tourism changed over the last 100years?

Answer 2

gone from around 0 tourists in 1950 up too 1.6 billion in 2020

Question 3

Reasons for the increase of toursim

Answer 3

Annual Leave
Transport developments
Econmic factors ( cheaper flights etc)
travel bans lifted etc

Question 4

Benefits of Tourism

Answer 4

Jobs are created
Local Tradtions are kept alive
money from toursits can be used for natural landscape

Question 5

Disadvantges of Tourism

Answer 5

overcrowding
jobs are often seasanol
Damage to natural environement

Question 6

Locations of Rainforests

Answer 6

Below ior in the eqator eg peru

Question 7

Rainforest climate

Answer 7

extremely hot and humid but very wet and rainy

Question 8

Nutrients cycle(3 stages)

Answer 8

Biomass,Litter,Soil

Question 9

Rainforest layers

Answer 9

forest floor- dark and gloomy little vegetation
undercanopy-limited sunlight,saplings wait for larger plants to die so they can acess sunlight
canopy-this is where the upper parts of the trees are found.
Emergant layer- this is where the tops of the tallest trees are

Question 10

causes of deforistation

Answer 10

Recoursres
placses to build new housing areas etc
logging( timber is cut down for money)

Question 11

deforistation solutions

Answer 11

selective logging
international agreements
Eco toursim

Question 12

what is sustainable management

Answer 12

managing and using ecosystems in a way which means biodiversity is maintained

Question 13

local and global imacts of deforistation

Answer 13

animals habitats are destrotyed
less carbon dioxide is absorbed my the trees which means more goes into the atmosphere leading to global warming