TBSHS GCSE Geography - Tropical rainforests 2

Tropical rainforest - goods or service?

Hardwood timber, such as ebony and rosewood, has valuable properties for furniture and manufacture.

• Goods

• Service

Tropical rainforest - goods or service?

The forest canopy protects the soil from being eroded by the heavy rainfall, and the vegetation reduces infiltration that could otherwise cause flash flooding downstream or landslides.

• Goods

• Service

Changes to TRF function due to climate change

The TRF ecosystem itself influences precipitation as vast amounts of water vapour are pumped out by the extensive vegetation through transpiration. Less dense forest means ___________ rainfall in surrounding areas.

• higher

• lower

Changes to TRF biodiversity due to climate change

TRF plant species cannot tolerate prolonged ________ or forest fires. Temperature and precipitation in TRF ecosystems are very similar all year round and species cannot cope with fluctuations.

• tropical cyclones

• drought

• rainfall

• earthquakes

Deforestation of TRFs

The main reasons for clearing rainforest are...

• resource extraction (mining)

• conversion to agriculture

• population pressure

• All of the options are correct

Deforestation of TRFs

_____________ needs vast areas of land. This is the biggest cause of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.

• Housing

• Roads

• Cattle ranching

• Mining

Deforestation of TRFs

As the global population increases there is a rising demand and rising prices for minerals such as iron ore. The world’s biggest mine iron ore is the Carajas mine in ____________

• Bolivia

• Argentina

• Ecuador

• Brazil

Deforestation of TRFs

Large-scale oil palm plantations have taken the place of TRF in Brazil. There is a high demand for palm oil as it is used in...

• food products

• cattle ranching

• cosmetics

• biofuel

TRF management

_____________ management is using resources in a way that will benefit current and future generations, without causing damage to the environment.

• Commercial

• Subsistence

• Resource

• Sustainable

TRF management

A feature of ______________ is that local people are often employed as guides, e.g. the Manu Cloud Forest Canopy Walkway, Peru.

• mass tourism

• ecotourism

• reduced-impact logging

• government policies