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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 only
a small part of
the Earth’s
surface –
about 6%, yet
they 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 rainheavy, continuous rain with
potential to flood; monsoonseasonal revearsing wind)
Australia
• Millions of years ago,
Australia, New Zealand
and 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 different
species 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
a DINGO
an EMU
a CUSCUS
a PLATYPUS
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 include
Coast Redwood or California Redwood
• It is an evergreen, long-lived, gigantic tree up
to 2 000 years old
• It is considered the tallest tree in
the 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 with
completely 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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THANK YOU!
Lara&Morena
Ivana, Filip&Norman
Lucija,Ana-Marija&Mihaela
Patricija&Mateja
Danijela Medaković, učitelj