1. Deforestation
Lesson 72

2. Activator Development or Destruction GDP: gross domestic product
content/waylanddownloads/july/DD-Deforestation-Download.pdf
Development or Destruction
GDP: gross domestic product
LEDC: Less Economically Developed Country
MEDC: More Economically Developed Country

3. Forest Forest covers about 31% of the Earth 4 billion hectares
pre-industrial area of 5.9 billion hectares
swaths half the size of England are lost each year.

4. Deforestation
The world’s rain forests could completely vanish in a hundred years at the current rate of deforestation.

5. Purpose The biggest driver of deforestation is agriculture
Farmers cut forests to provide more room for planting crops or grazing livestock.
Purpose

6. Effects of Deforestation
Deforestation can have a negative impact
Eighty percent of Earth’s land animals and plants live in forests  cannot survive the deforestation
Forest floors drying out
Trees absorb greenhouse gases

7. Classwork
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