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Geography Spring 9
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- 1What is Employment examples within the rainforest?Logging Mining Tourism
- 2Name all causes of deforestation in MalaysiaLogging, Commercial Farming, Roads, population pressure, Subsistence farming and mineral extraction,
- 3What is population pressure?Areas deforested to make way for homes due to growing population
- 4What is the environmental value of the rainforest?Biodiversity, prevent climate change, lower temperature, fresh water
- 5Name 2 social values of the rainforestEmployment, Energy, Resources, Medicines
- 6What is Debt Reduction in terms of the rainforest?The world bank cancels a countries debt if they preserve the rainforest
- 7What is agroforestryGrowing crops in strips between existing trees so the nutrients in the soil are maintained.
- 8What is Selective Logging?Only cutting down the older and more valued trees and late replanting new trees in their place.
- 9What is the benefit of Ecotourism?Brings income and helps preserve the rainforest as thats what people are coming to see.
- 10Define LoggingChopping down trees for high value wood such as mahogany and teak.
- 11Define ClimateThe average weather conditions over a long period of time
- 12Define Fossil fuelsFuels that create energy when burnt
- 13Define agricultureThe growing of crops and raising animals such as cattle.
- 14Give one way we can see evidence of climate change.Ice cores, Glacial retreat, global temperature data and paintings/diaries.
- 15Summarise the Green house effect.Radiation released from sun. Enters atmospjere. Some is absorebed by land, heating air around it. Some escapes into space. GHG's absorb rest and later re-emit
- 16Where are rainforests typically found?The tropics
- 17Where are Deserts typically found?The equator
- 18Name the three main elements of t he nutrient cycle.Biomass-> Litter -> Soil ->
- 19What is inbetween biomass and litter in the nutrient cycle?Littering
- 20What is inbetween litter and soil in the nutrient cycle?Decomposition
- 21What is inbetween biomass and soil in the nutrient cycle?Plant uptake
- 22Define bioticLiving parts in an ecosystem
- 23What is an adaptation of a fennec fox?Large ears
- 24What is an adaptation of a Jerboa?Small feet
- 25Name an adaptation of a porcupineNocturnal
- 26Name an adaptation of a plant in the dessert.Spikes, Water storage, tap roots, waxy cuticle.
- 27Where are deciduos forests found?Between the tropics and arctic circle
- 28What are the milankovitch cycles?Obliquity, eccentricity, preccesion
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