Forests vocabulary
Commercialization: Placing a product or service on the market.
Deforestation: Marked reduction of forest
Development: The overall process of improving living conditions in a city region or a country
Ecolabelling: Ecolabels or green stickers are labeling for food and consumer products
Ecological resource: Natural resources, including air, land, water, and the species that maintain them.
Plantations: An area in which trees have been planted
QUESTIONS
Q1: Name four types of ecosystems in the world
A1: example: wetlands, forests , prairies, deserts, ect.
Q2: what do trees do to the soil
A2: they make the soil firm and not loose
Q3: What does exploited forest mean?
A3: a forest altered by humans
Q3: true or false: trees give us oxygen
A3: true
Q4: true or false: are 60% of species at risk from their habitat in Canada?
A4: true
Q5: what is ecotourism?
A5: tourism which involves not destroying life such as trees if your touring a forest
Q6: are forests inspired by most artists?
A6 yes
Q7: how many trees do you think were cut in the “clear cutting era?”
A7: near 1000
Q8: what’s causing the climate to dramatically change?
A8: Global warming
Q9: What does acid rain do to trees?
A9: burns there leaves and makes them less robust
Q10: What is erosion?
Erosion is when water wears down an object example: a rock, soil, ect.
Q11: Do forests produce CO2?
A: yes
Q12: does illegal exploitation of forests exist?
A: yes
Q:13: do people who illegally cut down forests get government tax?
A13: no
Q14: do people try to stop deforestation?
A14: yes
Q15: what’s reforestation?
A15: reforestation is when you replant the trees you cut down from deforestation
Q16: what is a forest fire?
A16: a forest fire is when a forest either gets hit by lightning in a storm or gets caught in a power line and the whole forest gets engulfed in flames
Q17: which group of people have a very special relationship with the forest?
A17: the natives
Q18: what’s clear cutting?
A18: when people completely clear out forests for wood
Q19: true or false clear cutting is good for the environment
A: false
Q20: true or false ecotourism is very bad for the environment
A20: false
IMPORTANT FACTS
1: Reforestation is when you replant trees after clearing them out from deforestation.
2:Acid rain is destroying the environment.
3:Clear cutting is when people cut almost all of the forest its is really awful.
4: Forest fires are caused by lightning most of the time.
5: 45% of the Amazons tropical rain forest has been deforested in 4 years (2001-2004)
6: 7% of tourism in the world is ecotourism
7: Amazonia contains 20% of the worlds tropical rainforests.
8: BritishColombia has 60% covering it.
9: Abitibi-Temiscamingue’s forests cover up to 85% of the territory
10:20 million people including 1 million native people live in the Amazon forest
11: In Amazonia thousands of hectares are burned, cleared and then developed in order to grow soybeans and raise cattle.
12: Natives have a HUGE relationship with forests
13: All trees need sunlight ,heat and precipitation
14:native people are allow to cut 8% of the forest annually to carve totems and masks
15: The boreal forests is home to approximately 400 animal species.