Tropical Rainforests
- Created by: SomeKindOfMagic
- Created on: 23-10-17 16:15
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- Tropical Rainforests
- Location + Climate
- In bands across the world, between the 2 tropics
- Consistently high temperatures and humidity
- Rains all year round due to being in a low pressure belt
- Interdependence
- Animals
- Plants
- Plants take nutrients from soil and return them when they die
- Plants take sunlight and release water to provide rain
- Animals take nutrients from plants and help spread plant seeds (e.g. the Agouti and Brazil nuts)
- Animals
- Soils
- Plants take nutrients from soil and return them when they die
- People
- Use trees for wood and plants for medicine. Plants / animals also help create tourism
- Plants
- Plants take sunlight and release water to provide rain
- Animals take nutrients from plants and help spread plant seeds (e.g. the Agouti and Brazil nuts)
- Plants
- Use trees for wood and plants for medicine. Plants / animals also help create tourism
- Climate
- Adaptations
- Red Eyed Tree Frog
- Suction cups on feet to climb plants
- Brightly coloured to confuse predators
- Jaguar
- Camouflaged to sneak up on it's prey
- Can swim to cross rivers / streams
- Leaves
- Drip tips to help speed up water runoff
- Waxy leaves so leaves don't rot
- Trees
- Buttress roots to keep a tree stable and shallow to get minerals (they're near the surface)
- Tallest trees grow quickly to get sunlight
- Red Eyed Tree Frog
- Deforestation
- Malaysia increasing rates
- Elsewhere it's decreasing (e.g. Amazon Rainforest)
- Sustainable Development
- Elsewhere it's decreasing (e.g. Amazon Rainforest)
- Selective logging
- Ecotourism
- Education and conservation schemes
- Afforestation
- Nutrient Cycle
- Nutrients fall to the ground when plants die
- Litter
- Nutrients fall to the ground when plants die
- Location + Climate
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