Causes of deforestation AQA Geography GCSE

What is deforestation?

• Clearing Earth's forests on a massive scale
• Eating too much vegetables
• Going to a forest and pulling weeds
• Clearing the five trees in my backyard

what is the leading cause of deforestation?

• Diseases 
• Housing market
• Agriculture and Farming
• Paper mill

What are the effects of deforestation ?

• loss of habitat
• increased green house gasses 
• soil erosion and flooding
• all of the above

What does biodiversity mean?

• Only one species in an area.
• The different amount of species in an area
• All abiotic life
• Nitrogen fixation

There are 7 billion humans on planet Earth which leads to deforestation in order to farm to grow food for world population.

• True

• False

Which habitat has the most plants that will cure cancer?

• swamp land

• lake ponds

• woody forest

• tropical rainforest

Which CONTINENT is home to the majority of the world's rainforests?

• South America
• North America
• Africa
• Australia

What is a disadvantage of deforestation?

• more timber available
• increased carbon dioxide in the air
• increased oxygen in the air
• more land for ranching

Tropical rainforests are found close to the equator where the climate is

• dry and cool.

• wet and cool.

• dry and warm.

• wet and warm.

Which of the following lists the layers of a tropical rainforest from bottom to top?

• emergent layer, canopy, understory, forest floor

• understory, forest floor, emergent layer, canopy

• forest floor, emergent layer, understory, canopy

• forest floor, understory, canopy, emergent layer