Malaysia Flashcards
1
Q
Give 4 causes of deforestation
A
Energy
Logging
Road construction
Mining
2
Q
Give 3 impacts of deforestation
A
Economic development
Soil erosion/ loss of biodiversity
Climate change
3
Q
Logging?
A
1980 - became the largest export of tropical wood
4
Q
Road construction?
A
Needed to bring in machinery needed for mining and logging
5
Q
Energy?
A
- Bakun dam project
- $2 billion
- flooded forest
- destroying 230km^2 virgin forest
6
Q
Mining?
A
- tin mining
- drilling for gas and oil in Borneo
7
Q
Climate change?
A
- trees give off moisture (transpiration), less trees mean a drier climate
- transpiration cools air, less trees mean hotter climate
8
Q
Soil erosion?
A
-nutrients are on top layer soil
-trees bind soil together
-deforestation means soil is more easily eroded
-soil loses nutrients = infertile
-plants don’t grow = loss of biodiversity
9
Q
Pros of economic development?
A
-profit
- jobs through mining etc.
- tourism (£16.5 billion)
10
Q
Cons of economic development?
A
- pollution of water sources
-extinction of plants with possible medical properties
-water shortages
-loss of biodiversity/ deforestation
11
Q
2 facts about Malaysia?
A
- 67% forested
- rate of deforestation increasing faster than anywhere else in the
