Forests 1
Forest with broadleaf trees that change colors.
What is a Deciduous/Temperate Forest?
What is Boreal/Taiga?
Humans change forests and grasslands into this the most.
What is agricultural land?
What is 10%?
Determines if an area becomes a desert, grassland or forest.
What is amount of precipitation?
Word that means replanting trees in previously grown places.
What is reforestation?
Word that means growing trees in a new area that did not have trees before.
What is Afforestation?
The only continent that does not have a grassland.
What is Antarctica?
Length of the Dust Bowl.
What is 10 years?
What is the Tundra?
Growing trees with agriculture fields.
What is agroforestry?
The forest above 60° latitude.
What is Taiga/Boreal?
The percentage of terrestrial Earth covered in grasslands.
What is 20-40%?
The percentage of the world's oxygen produced in rainforests.
What is 40%?
5 grassland animals.
What are zebras, giraffes, lions, meerkats, buffalo, prairie dogs, birds
The percentage of terrestrial Earth that is covered in rainforests.
What is 6%?
Fires created by experts to clear fire fuel like pine cones, needles and twigs.
What is a controlled or prescribed burn?
Three types of grasslands.
What is Savanna/Tropical, Montane, Temperate/Prairie?
Annual rainfall in a rainforest.
What is 60-160 inches?
2 largest deserts in order from larges.
What is Antarctica and Sahara?
List 4 layers from bottom to top of rainforests.
What is forest floor, herb layer, shrub layer, understory, canopy, emergent layer?
List 3 techniques for sustainable forestry.
What is selective logging, sustainable use for forest products agroforestry, managing forest fires, reforestation, protection of forest lands, forest management?
Describe the vegetation in the Tundra, Taiga, Deciduous forest, Tropical rainforests, grassland and desert.
What is Tundra - Mosses and lichen, Taiga - evergreen coniferous trees, Deciduous - broadleaf color changing, Tropical Rainforests - Large evergreen trees, vines and ferns, grasslands - grasses, deserts - plants with shallow widespread roots and thick leaves?
Years it takes for topsoil to regenerate.
What is 1,000 years?
Four services a forest provides.
What is improve water quality, minimize soil erosion, store carbon dioxide, flood prevention, habitat creation, oxygen production?