Starter: What are the causes of rainforest destruction?

Point explanation example for each

What are the causes of rainforest destruction?

Point explanation example for each
Farming
Soya for export, poor
landless farmers
Rondonia

Dams
Flood lareg areas
for hydro-electricity
Itaipu Dam

Cattle ranching
Trees cleared for pasture,
move on after 10 years
Rondonia
Mining
Tin, Iron, aluminium
Carajas project, bon futurea

Logging
For western and Asian
markets, access by transamazonian highway
Rondonia

What are the causes of

rainforest destruction? (4)
Extension:
What about increasing
urbanisation?
Climate change?

What are the causes of rainforest destruction?

Point explanation example for each
Farming
Soya for export, poor
landless farmers
Rondonia
Cattle ranching
Trees cleared for pasture,
move on after 10 years
Rondonia
Mining
Tin, Iron, aluminium
Carajas project, bon futurea

Logging
For western and Asian
markets, access by transamazonian highway
Rondonia

Dams
Flood lareg areas
for hydro-electricity
Itaipu Dam

1 marks for each clear point

and 1 mark for a clear
explanation
WWW/ EBI
Range of points
Explanation
Quality of explanations
Examples used (places and
species)
Examples used and explained
Pegex structure
Clear understanding shown

1 marks for each clear point and 1

mark for a clear explanation
WWW/ EBI
Range of points
Explanation
Quality of explanations
Examples used (places and species)
Examples used and explained
Pegex structure
Clear understanding shown

What is the value of the

rainforest?
All (D Grade): Know what the rainforest can provide for us
Most (B/C Grade): Be able to explain why these goods and
services are important
Some (A*/A Grade): be able to explain local and global
consequences of rainforest loss

What goods and services does the

rainforest provide for us?
Good

Service

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Fr _ _ _ and n_ _ _

W _ _ _ r purif _ _ _ _
Gene _ _ _ _

M_ _ icin _ _
F____w____

_ _ _rient _ _cylcing
Hab_ _ _ _ _ for p _ _ _ _ _ and
animals

Gums, r _ _ _ _ _ and o _ _ _
B _ _ _ _ _ _ _ materials

Rec _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Clean _ _ _

What is the value of the

rainforest?
All (D Grade): Know what the rainforest can provide for us
Most (B/C Grade): Be able to explain why these goods and
services are important
Some (A*/A Grade): be able to explain local and global
consequences of rainforest loss

Rainforest loss

Causes
Effects

So what is the value of the rainforest?

Part 2
Page 47
Take your copy of the ecological tree and in each box explain what would
happen if that good/ service was altered by rainforest destruction

So what is the value of the rainforest?

Part 2
Page 47
Take your copy of the ecological tree and in each box explain what would
happen if that good/ service was altered by rainforest destruction
Crop varieties
reduced, lower
harvests, food
shortages

Chemicals costs more

Paper increasingly
scarce less books/
magazine
-impact on
communication/
workplace/ schools

Less charcoal means

fuel costs more, less
CO2 produced though

Dryer and hotter

climate, global
greenhouse effect
increased, oxygen
reduced

Prices of oils goes up, food

costs more,
manufacturing costs more

Wooden furniture
costs more, less
wooden objects

Flooding and landslides

increase

Less interception
means more soil
erosion

Fresh water
diminished and less
rainfall

Less research and

development of new
drugs, existing drugs
rise in price, more
disease untreated

LOCAL
IMPACTS
Trees

Soil
Local impacts of
deforestation

Water
P45
In a spider
diagram, Explain
the local impacts
of rainforest
destruction

Animals and
plants

GLOBAL IMPACTS
How can the rainforests removal affect the global climate?

GLOBAL IMPACTS
How can the rainforests removal affect the global climate?
Burning releases CO2
into the atmosphere

1/3 of oxygen comes

from rainforests

Trees take in
and store
CO2

Forests in the Congo and

the Amazon represent
some of the world's
largest carbon stores

forests store up to 100

times more carbon
than fields

More than 1.5 billion tons of

CO2 are released due to
deforestation

75 %of Brazil's carbon

emissions come from
deforestation

GLOBAL IMPACTS
How can the rainforests removal affect the global climate?
Burning releases CO2
into the atmosphere

1/3 of oxygen comes

from rainforests

Trees take in
and store
CO2

Forests in the Congo and

the Amazon represent
some of the world's
largest carbon stores

forests store up to 100

times more carbon
than fields

More than 1.5 billion tons of

CO2 are released due to
deforestation

75 %of Brazil's carbon

emissions come from
deforestation

All: pick 3 key facts about rainforest clearance and write them down in
order of importance.
Most: Use at least 3 facts to explain the global impacts of rainforest
clearance.
Some: Use all the facts the explain the global impacts of rainforest
clearance

Rate the degree of impact that each of the uses

have on the TRF environment
5 = High impact
0 = Low impact

Vegetation 5
and wildlife

Atmosphere
5

Soil

Water
On your diagram
write where each
of the uses of the
TFR would go on
the 4 way scale

Uses of the TRF

Ranching
Logging
Farming
Mining
Hydroelectricity

Rate the degree of impact that each of the uses

have on the TRF environment
5 = High impact
0 = Low impact

Vegetation 5
and wildlife

Atmosphere
5

Soil

Water
On your diagram
write where each
of the uses of the
TFR would go on
the 4 way scale

Uses of the TRF

Ranching
Logging
Farming
Mining
Hydroelectricity

Rate the degree of impact that each of the uses

have on the TRF environment
5 = High impact
0 = Low impact

Vegetation 5
and wildlife

Atmosphere
5

Soil

Water
On your diagram
write where each
of the uses of the
TFR would go on
the 4 way scale

Uses of the TRF

Ranching
Logging
Farming
Mining
Hydroelectricity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90nc3IuNCw

Homework
How can people degrade the rainforest
indirectly?

 Homework review (peer)

1. climatic change, ENSO (El Nino) is a cycle that

means it is dryer and warmer in certain years
this cycle is increasing.
2. Wildlife killed, rivers dry, fires break out,
drought, plants die
3. Trees burnt, soils exposed, climate altered
4. More CO2 means warming of climate, warming
of climate means more drought/forest fires.
5. Smoke inhibits cloud formation and leads to
reduced rainfall environmental
transformation.

Starter:
Recap and understanding check:
Colour code the cards to show
- the causes of deforestation
- The resources of the amazon
- the local effects
- The global effects
Extension: how else can we categorise the effects?