Adjectives The Tropical Rainforest Word Mat Eco and geo terms
crawling Key regions with TRF biome
cycled Amazon Basin buffer zone dappled shade Central America canopy dark Central and West Africa carbon cycle dense NE Australia clear felling destroyed SE Asia/Indonesian Islands conservation disrupted decomposers equatorial deforestation eroded Key countries with TRF ecosystem extinct Brazil emergent trees flooded Cameroon epiphytes humid Colombia food web intense sunlight Costa Rica hunter/gatherer interconnected Democratic Republic of Congo laterite littered Indonesia leaching nutrient poor Malaysia leaf litter parasitic Peru liana rapid Thailand national park regenerated Venezuela nutrient cycle remote parasites secondary Some other geo names photosynthesis shrinking Equator primary consumers straight Tropic of Cancer primary producers sustainable Tropic of Capricorn secondary consumers sweltering selective felling symbiotic shifting cultivation tall An Orang Utan in a rainforest refuge in the Malaysian state of slash and burn tropical Sarawak, on the island of Borneo sustainable development unsustainable This word mat was produced by www.sln.org.uk/geography from an adapted idea by Chesterton High School symbiosis vast The words for all pupils are in bold, most pupils are in normal and some pupils are in italic font understorey