Tropical Rainforests

Question 1

2 Key features of tropical rainforests

Answer 1

Hot and wet all year round, high levels of biodiversity

Question 2

Total annual rainfall in tropical rainforests

Answer 2

2360mm

Question 3

How hot are tropical rainforests?

Answer 3

Temperatures stay ijn the mid to high twenties all year round

Question 4

Logging

Answer 4

The activity or business of felling trees and cutting and preparing the timber.

Question 5

What percentage of world deforestation do palm oils cause?

Answer 5

18 percent

Question 6

Deforestation

Answer 6

The action of clearing a wide area of trees

Question 7

Cattle Ranching

Answer 7

Chopping down an area of land so that grazing livestock may be raised on it

Question 8

What percentage of deforestation in the Amazon does cattle ranching account for?

Answer 8

80 Percent

Question 9

Settlement building

Answer 9

Local people clear land to provide area for housing and farming

Question 10

Give 3 arguments in favour of settlement building

Answer 10

Not a cycle of using land, needed in times of poverty, houses provide shelter and warmth

Question 11

How does mining contribute to deforestation?

Answer 11

Clears forest to dig excavation pits and access lodes, on site processing facilities and roads also contribute to deforestation

Question 12

Name 3 global impacts of deforestation

Answer 12

24 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, leads to climate change, huge loss of biodiversity as species go extinct

Question 13

Name 2 local impacts of deforestation

Answer 13

Farmers make less money and move, local people lose forests as a source of shelter

Question 14

What percentage of medicines come from the rainforest?

Answer 14

25 percent

Question 15

What is the rainforest often described as?

Answer 15

The lungs of the world

Question 16

How do rainforests reduce climate change?

Answer 16

Trees act as carbon stores and remove carbon dioxide

Question 17

Which group of people rely on the rainforest?

Answer 17

Indigenous tribes

Question 18

Where does ecotourism take place?

Answer 18

Belize, Malaysia and Costa Rica

Question 19

What does ecotourism aim to achieve?

Answer 19

Introduce people to the natural world, generate income and protect the environment and local communities for the future

Question 20

Where have global agreements been made to protect rainforests?

Answer 20

Ecuador, Brazil and DR Congo

Question 21

Where is conservation and education take place?

Answer 21

Switzerland, Brazil, Venezuela and Ecuador

Question 22

What does conservation and education aim to achieve?

Answer 22

To preserve the rainforest in conservation areas

Question 23

Where is selective logging and replanting taking place?

Answer 23

Uganda, Venezuela, Indonesia and others

Question 24

True or false: the rainforest is important for clean water

Answer 24

True

Question 25

True or false: many foods come from the rainforests

Answer 25

True