TRF
- Created by: ChloeYeung710
- Created on: 03-06-22 15:58
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- Rainforests
- layers of the rainforests
- forest floor
- darkest, hard for plants to grow
- shrub layer
- dark, gloomy layer
- Under canopy
- warm damp layer
- Canopy
- overlapping tree
- Emergent
- receives bright sunlight
- forest floor
- Why are they important
- contain half of earths wild life
- provides shelter
- regulate shelter
- Climate and location factors
- Found around the equator
- Hot as equator's latitude
- average temp: 27-29 C
- average rainfall: 2000-10,000 mm per year
- Humid
- tribal culture and threats to TRF
- Mining - use mercury for extracting gold out of river mud, causing mercury poisoning and cancers
- Logging: cutting down on the amount of forest that is inhabitable forcing tribes out of their homes
- Convectional rainfall
- sun heats up the ground
- Air next to ground is heated
- warm air raises
- water evaporates
- air cools + condensation
- clouds form
- cumulonim-bus clouds form
- heavy rainfall
- cumulonim-bus clouds form
- clouds form
- air cools + condensation
- water evaporates
- warm air raises
- Air next to ground is heated
- sun heats up the ground
- sustainability
- selective logging: only selected trees are cut
- agroforestry: growing trees and crops at the same time
- Animal and plant adaptations
- Poison frog
- Bright colour skin to warn predator
- drip tips
- no rotting
- Poison frog
- Distribution of TRFs
- Aisa, Oceana, South America, Africa
- between tropics of cancer and tropics of Capricorn
- layers of the rainforests
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