A tree, a man, the life

A tale of a forest

World Forest Day

•We celebrate World Forest Day around the world on 21 March, the day of the vernal equinox in the Northern hemisphere and autumn equinox in the Southern hemisphere (vernal-related to or occuring in spring; youthful, fresh like spring)

Key words

• a FOREST• a RAINFOREST - a forest with high rainfall

(between 1,75 and 2 metres of the minimum a year)• a HIGH CLOUD FOREST - a tropical or subtropical

evergreen montane forest, it has a cloud cover at the canopy level (montane- on a mountain; a canopy level- a roof level)

•MANGROVE SWAMPS /FORESTS- coastal wetlands in tropical or subtropical regions-mangroves are halophytic-salt loving- trees and plants and live there where fresh water meets salt water• a FLOODED FOREST or a

freshwater swamp forest - fresh water covers this forest permanently or seasonally (Lonjsko Polje, for instance)

Rainforests

• Cover onlya small part of the Earth’s surface – about 6%, yetthey are home to over half the species of plants and animals in the world

• Often called ‘Jewels of Earth’ or ‘World’s largest Pharmacy’ because over 25% of natural medicines have been discovered there

Central America• Recently have been

cleared for cattle ranching and sugar cane

plantations• Contains many plants and animals,especially a large number of tropical birds including many kinds of parrots

CITRON CRESTED COCKATOO

The Amazon Jungle

• World’s largest tropical rainforest• It covers the basin of the Amazon river• 20% of all the world’s plants and birds and

about 10% of all mammal species are found there

Central Africa• Central Africa holds the world’s

second largest rainforest• To the SE, the large island of

Madagascar had many forests some time ago, but now most of them are gone

• Africa contains areas of high cloud forests, mangrove swamps and flooded forests

FLOODED FOREST - MADAGASCAR

Southern Asia

• The rainforests of Asia stretch from India and Burma in the west to Malaysia and the islands of Java in the east

• Bangladesh has the largest area of mangrove forests in the world

• Vegetation of the rainforests in the mainland Asia depends on torrential monsoon rain followed by a drier period (torrential rain- heavy, continuous rain with potential to flood; monsoon- seasonal revearsing wind)

Australia

• Millions of years ago,Australia, New Zealandand the island of New LAKE TERAWERA-NEW ZEALAND

Guinea formed a great forested Southern continent isolated from the rest of the world• Today these countries contain many differentspecies of animals that occur nowhere else• Undergrowth in Australia’s tropical forests is dense (very thick) and lush (very rich)

Life of Australia• You may know kangaroos, koalas,

platypuses and dingos but there are also wombats, emus, cuscuses, goannas and many, many more...

• An interesting fact is when you arrive to any part of Australia from any part of the world or other parts of Australia, you have to clean your shoes in order not to threaten its vegetation and animal world in any way (by bringing different microorganisms or bacterias)

a WOMBAT an EMU a PLATYPUS

a DINGO a CUSCUS a GOANNA

Strange trees:A Baobab tree

• Often called the Tree of Life• It is capable of providing shelter, food and

water for the animal and human inhabitants of the African savannah regions

• Radio-carbon dating has measured that some of Baobab trees are over 2 000 years old

Strange trees:A Sequoia tree

• Common names includeCoast Redwood or California Redwood• It is an evergreen, long-lived, gigantic tree up

to 2 000 years old• It is considered the tallest tree inthe world reaching up to 115,5m in height and 7m in diameter in base

Let’s remember!

• What is a rainforest? • And what’s a high cloud forest?• What is a mangrove tree?• And what’s a flooded forest?• What’s the world’s largest rainforest?• And the second largest?• Where can you find rainforests withcompletely strange animals? • What is the oldest tree in the world?• What is the tallest tree in the world?• How can you help us save the trees?

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Lara&MorenaIvana, Filip&Norman

Lucija,Ana-Marija&Mihaela Patricija&Mateja

Danijela Medaković, učitelj