Tropical
Tropical rainforests impact this.
What is the weather, biodiversity, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, oxygen in the atmosphere, clean water in the World?
This invasive species in the U.S. can cause soil erosion, destroy young trees, and consume seeds and nuts needed for new growth.
What is feral hogs?
The forest type with the least human disruption.
What is the Boreal/Taiga forest?
The percentage of terrestrial animals that depend on forest habitats.
What is 80%?
This amount of an ecosystem must be covered in trees for it to be considered a forest.
What is 10%?
The annual rainforest in a tropical rainforest.
What is 60-160 inches?
List 3 techniques for sustainable forestry.
What are Selective Logging, Sustainable use for forest products, Agroforestry, Managing forest fires, reforestation, Protection of forest lands or forest management.
The act that helped undo damage affecting natural areas.
What is the Natural Forest Management Act?
The act that allowed the President of the U.S. to set aside forest reserves.
What is the Forest Reserve Act?
The amount of forests that are privately owned.
What is 58%?
The percentage of the Earth covered in rainforests.
What is 6%?
Controlled fires created by experts to clear fire fuel.
What is a controlled or prescribed burn?
Forest MUST have these.
What are trees?
Experts estimate ___ million acres of tree-covered land is considered at risk or mortality.
What is 81 million trees?
The act that established the management, protection and care of forest reserves.
What is the Organic Act?
The percentage of the world's oxygen is produced in the rainforests.
What is 40%?
What type of forest has trees that change colors in the fall and lose their leaves in the winter?
Name 3 things we can do to conserve forests.
What is reduce paper products we use, use reusable containers, replace paper towels with kitchen towels, use bamboo instead of wood, plant native trees in your yard.
The act that required the Secretary of Agriculture to assess the renewable resources and monitor the supply/demand of each.
What is the Forest and Rangeland Act?
Humans change forests into this the most.
What is agricultural land?
List the layers of the forest from the bottom to the top.
What is forest floor, herb layer, shrub layer, understory and canopy.
By 1900, the U.S. had reduced forest to this %.
33%
What is IMPROVE WATER QUALITY, MINIMIZE SOIL EROSION, STORE CARBON DIOXIDE, FLOOD PREVENTION, HABITAT CREATION, OXYGEN PRODUCTION?
The act created in 1862 that encouraged settlers to move west and provided free acreage to those that made the journey.
What is the Homestead Act?
The word that means growing trees with agriculture.
What is Agroforestry?