Tropical Rainforests- CfE level 4

Question 1

Where are Tropical rainforests found?

Answer 1

Close to the equator.

Question 2

What is the name of the rainforests in South America?

Answer 2

Amazon Basin

Question 3

What is the name of the rainforest in Africa?

Answer 3

Congo Basin

Question 4

What is the name of the rainforest in SE Asia?

Answer 4

Indonesia

Question 5

Temperature in rainforests

Answer 5

• High all year
• No seasonal pattern
• Max temp- Hot 25C-28C

Question 6

Rainfall in Rainforests

Answer 6

• Rainfall in every month
  -Wet climate, humid
• Total around 2000mm per year

Question 7

What is the name of the sustainable form of farming that Amerindian tribes use?

Answer 7

Shifting Cultivation/Slash burn farming

Question 8

They make a clearing by ?

Answer 8

Slash and Burn

Question 9

Ash is then used as what?

Answer 9

Fertiliser.

Question 10

The clearing is then planted with?

Answer 10

Crops- manioc and yams

Question 11

The soil then becomes

Answer 11

infertile

Question 12

The tribe then

Answer 12

move onto a new clearing as the fertility returns to the same clearing

Question 13

How is Shifting Cultivation/ Slash Burn sustainable?

Answer 13

1- There is no long term damaged
2- the plots cleared are very small in size
3- The native rainforest trees are able to grow back, helping the soil fertility to recover

Question 14

Reasons for clearing the forest

Answer 14

1. Timber extraction
2. Cattle Ranching
3. Soya farming
   4, Hydro electric power
4. Road building
5. New settlements

Question 15

Benefits for clearing the forest

Answer 15

1. Creates jobs
2. Creates income
3. Roads for access
4. HEP gives energy.

Question 16

Impact on people:

Answer 16

1. Native people forced from their homes
2. Removal of trees causes soil to be washed into rivers which affects fishing and transport
3. Tribes are forced further into the forest
4. Incomers can bring fatal diseases
5. Traditional medicines lost as plants become extinct

Question 17

Impact on environment:

Answer 17

1. Soil becomes infertile
2. Soil erosion
3. Habitat and wildlife destroyed
4. Mining pollutes rivers
5. Ecosystem damaged

Question 18

Global Impact

Answer 18

Less CO2 absorbed by trees- increase in global warming

Question 19

Solutions:

Answer 19

1. Sustainably managed forests
2. replanting of trees
   3, limiting number of trees felled
3. COnservation areas where all rainforest is protected
4. Selective felling
5. Reservations where native Amerindians can live safely and practice shifting cultivation
6. Fines for who fell trees in protected.
7. Raise awareness about tree felling,