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This worldwide phenomena is heavily relevant today and causes the destruction of forests.
What is Deforestation?
Deforestation is the act of clearing away an area of trees. Yes, deforestation is still relevant today.
A mix of gasses that are held together and held down by Earth's gravity. It also collects greenhouse gasses and stores them.
What is the atmosphere?
The atmosphere holds Earth's gasses that are released. One of these harmful gasses is Carbon, released from deforestation.
Environmental Issues include many topics such as deforestation. This is why deforestation is such an important environmental issue. It affects this topic heavily.
What is Climate Change?
Deforestation is a leading cause in many issues such as climate change. It affects almost everything on the earth and can have devastating consequences.
The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
What is habitat?
This is how trees help the carbon cycle.
What is regulating the carbon cycle?
Trees help regulate the carbon cycle by retaining any excess carbon so it doesn't go on the atmosphere.
The last decade has brought much harm to forests regarding deforestation. This total amount of forests have been lost in how many hectares.
What is 4.7 Million hectares per year?
Since 2010, a little over one decade ago, the total net loss was 4.7 Million hectares per year. “However, deforestation rates were much significantly higher. The UN FAO estimate that 10 million hectares of forest were cut down each year.¨ (Ritchie)
This natural gas that trees produce is slowly decreasing due to deforestation. It's known to provide ¨a breath of fresh air¨.
What is oxygen?
These four household companies contribute the most to deforestation.
What is IKEA, Walmart, McDonald's, and Starbucks?
Yes, these four companies rely heavily on paper based products, paper comes from trees, trees come from deforestation.
This area has been effected the most by deforestation.
What is the Tropics?
The tropics are the most affected by deforestation. 95% of deforestation occurs in tropical areas!
This percentage of carbon levels has either risen or decreased because of deforestation. Name the percentage amount and whether its risen or decreased.
What is 30% risen?
Deforestation has caused carbon levels to rise by 30% since 1850.
Deforestation has been prominently relevant for a long time. This year describes the most prominent deforestation era.
What is the 1980´s?
Deforestation was very prominent in the 1980´s when an area half the size of India was cleared of trees. The 1980´s had the most deforestation with a total loss of 150 million hectares (a metric unit of square measure, equal to 100 acres [2.471 acres or 10,000 square meters]).
Deforestation is actively affecting this cycle in the hydrosphere.
What is the water cycle?
The hydrosphere is the total amount of water that is retained and released on earth. Deforestation affects the reduction of impacts that floods have because trees are used to block and regular the flow of runoff. Without this, there is an increase in irregular rainfall patterns like flooding and droughts.
Many industries are responsible for deforestation leading to climate change, but this farming industry contributes the most.
What is Beef?
“The expansion of pasture land to raise cattle was responsible for 41% of tropical deforestation. That's 2.1 million hectares every year – about half the size of the Netherlands. Most of this converted land came from Brazil; its expansion of beef production accounts for one-quarter (24%) of tropical deforestation.” (Ritchie)
Animals pay the price for human mistakes. These animal groups have paid the biggest price.
What is Mammals, Reptiles, and Birds?
Deforestation affects all animals but it hurts these animal groups the most. They're the ones living in the trees that are being cut down.
This involves the water cycle. Besides this certain cycle being disturbed there is another reason about how deforestation negatively affects it.
What is creating non-arable land?
Trees regulate water in the atmosphere by releasing moisture in the air therefore regulating weather patterns. Without trees, there's a less amount of water available, causing the soil to dry up and become non-arable, meaning crops are unable to grow there.
There was a time before us when deforestation actually ¨started¨. Name the year / decade.
What is the 1600´s?
Deforestation started in the 1600´s and has been on the rise since then.
This ¨sphere¨ consists of the entirety of life on earth! Including ecosystems.
What is the Biosphere or the Ecosphere?
The biosphere, or the ecosphere, consists of the entirety of life on earth/ the ecosystems. Deforestation contributes to many effects like changes in the water cycle, the loss of biodiversity, and an increase in carbon emissions. All of these changes directly affect the biosphere.
These are two more reasons why deforestation should be stopped. Both are related to the good for humans.
What is human medicine and the protection of indigenous peoples?
Human medicines are mainly derived from forests. The United Nations says that ¨25 percent of medicinal drugs used in developed countries are plant-based, while in developing countries, it can be as much as 80 per cent. Forests also provide essential health products such as hygiene and sanitary items like toilet paper, paper towels, tissues and ethanol for sanitizers.¨
Indigenous peoples rely on the forest for their livelihood and necessities. With deforestation, their lives are in danger.
This is one of the leading causes for animals to go extinct.
What is habitat loss?
Without a proper habitat, animals face the devastating consequences.
Erosion is caused when dirt is exposed to harsh weather. Deforestation has increased this number of rates.
What is 10 to 100 times?
Deforestation causes the soil to become unstable leading to erosion. With the addition of deforestation and agriculture activities, erosion rates are increased on the land.
In order to plan ahead we need to look in the future and learn from our past. What will deforestation look like in ten years time?
What is irreversibly changing the ecosystem?
Scientists say the Amazon Rain-forest could lose between 20-25% of the forest within the next decade. This could irreversibly change the ecosystem and endanger biodiversity!
Earth's deforestation problem relates to the ¨spheres¨ by this.
What is all spheres have impact from deforestation?
From the atmosphere to the biosphere, all of the Earth's layers and spheres are negatively impacted by the effects of deforestation. Carbon emissions directly impact climate change, the water cycle is disturbed, and habitats are being destroyed leading to extinction.
Deforestation does matter. Change is possible with the individual actions of people. Deforestation can be combated by these methods.
What is a being a responsible citizen with the environment?
There are many things you can do as an individual to combat deforestation and climate change! You can eat sustainable food, buy recycled and responsibly produced wood products, avoid single use packaging, and consume less. Every individual's efforts contribute greatly to reducing deforestation!
This animal was the last known amphibian to be declared extinct due to deforestation and habitat loss.
What is the Splendid poison frog?
The Nutrient Cycle is the transfer of nutrients through living and nonliving organisms. Deforestation negatively affects this cycle by…
What is limiting nutrients and altering the biogeochemical cycles?
The Nutrient Cycle can be changed ¨that continued deforestation may fundamentally alter the biogeochemical cycles underpinning the ecosystem, leading to a decline in the availability of limiting nutrients such as phosphorus and thus in plant biomass and carbon storage.¨ (Lawrence)