The cards Question What is a biome? Tap to flip Answer A large region of the world with similar climates, vegetation and animals adapted to living there. Question Over roughly how long is climate averaged? Tap to flip Answer A long period, usually 30 years or more. Question Give one type of forest found across the world. Tap to flip Answer e.g. tropical rainforest, boreal forest or temperate forest. Question What two features characterise the boreal forest? Tap to flip Answer A cold climate and coniferous trees. Question Between which two lines of latitude are the tropics? Tap to flip Answer The Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. Question In which climate zone are tropical rainforests located? Tap to flip Answer The tropical climate zone. Question What are the four layers of a tropical rainforest? Tap to flip Answer The emergents, the canopy, the understory and the forest floor. Question Why does it rain so much in tropical rainforests? Tap to flip Answer The heat causes lots of evaporation and rising air, which cools and condenses to form rain clouds. Question What does indigenous mean? Tap to flip Answer Being the original inhabitants of a place, rather than people who moved there from elsewhere. Question Give one negative impact of rainforest deforestation. Tap to flip Answer e.g. loss of carbon sinks, loss of habitats, soil erosion or displacement of people. Question Is the rainforest used only by people who live in or near it? Tap to flip Answer No. Many products grown or extracted there are exported and used all over the world. Question What is deforestation? Tap to flip Answer The complete removal of trees. Question What is biodiversity? Tap to flip Answer All the living things in an ecosystem or area. Question Which country was the first tropical country in the world to reverse deforestation? Tap to flip Answer Costa Rica. Question What do wildlife corridors allow species such as the jaguar to do? Tap to flip Answer Move through the rainforest undetected. Question Where is the temperate climate zone? Tap to flip Answer The region between the tropics and the polar areas. Question On which three continents are temperate forests distributed? Tap to flip Answer Europe, Asia and North America. Question What is the average annual temperature of the temperate forests? Tap to flip Answer 10 degrees Celsius. Question What are the four layers of a temperate deciduous forest? Tap to flip Answer The canopy, the sub-canopy, the herb layer and the ground layer. Question Why do temperate deciduous forests have nutrient-rich soil? Tap to flip Answer Trees lose their leaves, making lots of leaf litter, and the climate is not too cold for decomposers. Question What is a temperate climate like? Tap to flip Answer Moderate rainfall, mild to warm summers and cool to cold winters. Question Give one plant found in temperate deciduous forests. Tap to flip Answer e.g. oak trees, beech trees or bluebells. Question Give one animal found in temperate deciduous forests. Tap to flip Answer e.g. squirrels, hedgehogs or nightingales. Question Is it only animals that adapt to different conditions? Tap to flip Answer No. Many plants and animals adapt in many different ways to their surroundings. Question What is the world's largest land-based biome? Tap to flip Answer The boreal forest. Question What is another name for the boreal forest? Tap to flip Answer The taiga. Question Are boreal forests found at high or low latitudes? Tap to flip Answer High latitudes. Question How are coniferous trees different from evergreen trees? Tap to flip Answer Coniferous trees produce cones and are normally evergreen, but some evergreens, e.g. holly, are not coniferous. Question Which community lives in parts of the boreal forest and traditionally herds reindeer? Tap to flip Answer The Saami. Question Deforestation in the boreal forest has fragmented the habitat of which animal? Tap to flip Answer The woodland caribou. Question Do all Indigenous people have a traditional lifestyle? Tap to flip Answer No. Some keep a traditional lifestyle, while others have taken on less traditional lifestyles or migrated. Question What are greenhouse gases? Tap to flip Answer Gases in Earth's atmosphere that trap heat. Question How do forests change the gases in Earth's atmosphere? Tap to flip Answer They remove carbon dioxide and replace it with oxygen. Question Why is the natural greenhouse effect essential for life on Earth? Tap to flip Answer Without it, the planet would be too cold to sustain most life forms. Question What are wildfires? Tap to flip Answer Uncontrolled fires that spread fast through vegetation, e.g. forests, grasslands or shrublands. Question Give one natural and one human cause of wildfires. Tap to flip Answer Natural: e.g. lightning. Human: e.g. campfires. Question What is a carbon sink? Tap to flip Answer Anything that absorbs and stores more carbon dioxide than it releases. Question What are mangroves? Tap to flip Answer Shrubs and trees that grow in coastal waters. Question Mangroves help protect the land from flooding caused by what? Tap to flip Answer Tropical storms and tidal surges. Question Name a mangrove forest found in India and Bangladesh. Tap to flip Answer The Sundarbans. Question What is afforestation? Tap to flip Answer Introducing forest to land that has not been forested for a long time, or ever. Question What is reforestation? Tap to flip Answer Replanting forest that has been lost. Question What is agroforestry? Tap to flip Answer When trees, crops and/or livestock occupy the same land. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage Key stage 3 (Years 7–9) Course KS3 Geography Unit Forest biomes: why are forests so important? 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Show the other sources (10) Primary source Mangroves: forests of the seas (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source The future of our forests (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source The tropical rainforest biome (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source People's use of the rainforest (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Protecting the tropical rainforest (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source The temperate deciduous forests (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Animals and plants in the temperate deciduous forests (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source The boreal forest biome (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source People's use of the boreal forest (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Climate change and the forests (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Found a mistake? Write to support@flashfeed.app .
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