Veggies
These are the three conditions that allow for vegetation to grow rapidly in the tropical forest.
What are heat, light and moisture?
Huge areas of forest are destroyed because of the global demand of this product.
What is palm oil?
This piece of furniture is a good method to judge whether an activity is sustainable or not.
What is a three-legged stool?
Equatorial climate is characterized by very high this.
What is humidity?
The term for the economic activity of cutting or felling trees.
What is logging?
Their buttress roots give the tallest tress supoort.
What are emergents?
Most palm oil comes from these two countries which share an island.
What are Malaysia and Indonesia?
The more resources we use and the more CO2 we emit, the bigger will be our ___
What is global/eco footprint?
More than 2000 mm per year is normal in the equatorial climate.
What is the (annual) rainfall/precipitation?
Big areas of forest are cleared for animals so that we can produce beef.
What is cattle ranching?
It is very dark in this layer and there's little vegetation.
What is the forest floor?
Name two food products which contain palm oil.
What are pizza, cereals, chewing gum, margarine, crips, sweets, etc.
This circle with four spikes helps to look at all the aspects of development and sustainability.
What is the (development) compass rose?
The average temperature in the equatorial climate.
What is 28 degrees Celsius?
In Borneo, deforestation is destroying the habitat of this animal.
What is the orangutan?
This layer is home to most of the wildlife.
What is the canopy?
The reason this palm oil is so popular and valuable is this.
Efficiency / it gives more oil per hectare than other crops.
An activity that provides jobs for people is a benefit of this type.
What is social?
There is something about the seasons in the equatorial climate.
What is there are no clear/obvious seasons?
Tropical forests are cleared to mine for one of the several minerals we have mentioned in class.
What is bauxite/gold/iron/copper?
Sunlight enters this layer partially only and plant seedlings await for available space before they grow.
What is the under canopy?
These 'sticky' areas are also destroyed to grow palm oil. They are 'smelly' and release something dangerous.
What are peat bogs?
Development that meets the needs of the present without impacting negatively the needs of future generations.
What is sustainability?
This is the type of rain present in the equatorial climate.
What is convectional?
In the past, forests were cut down to provide crops and land for this type of farming, which is sustainable.
What is subsistence farming?