Answer the following questions.
a. What region does the equatorial forests lie in?
b. What are the two types of farming techniques practised in the tropical rainforests?
c. Describe, in your own words, the four layers of the equatorial rainforests.
d. What do you think will happen if the Equatorial rainforests disappear?
e. What kind of human settlements are found in the Equatorial forests?
Answers
a. What region does the equatorial forests lie in?
The equatorial forest region is found on both sides of the equator and falls in the torrid zone
b. What are the two types of farming techniques practised in the tropical rainforests?
subsistence farming is a type of farming in which farming is mainly practiced to meet the needs of the farmers family
in this the farmer uses primitive methods to produce a variety of crops
in this the labor is provided by the farmers family
two types of subsistence farming are primitive and intensive
- primitive subsistence farming include shifting cultivation known as slash and burn culture
- intensive farming is a agriculture characterized high output per unit
c. Describe, in your own words, the four layers of the equatorial rainforests.
In general, it is divided into four layers: emergent layer, canopy layer, understory, and the forest floor.
Layers of the Rainforest
Emergent Layer. The first layer of a tropical rainforest from the top is called the emergent layer.
Canopy Layer.
Understory.
Forest Floor.
d. What do you think will happen if the Equatorial rainforests disappear?
If the Amazon rainforest is destroyed, rainfall will decrease around the forest region. This would cause a ripple effect, and prompt an additional shift in climate change, which would result in more droughts, longer dry spells, and massive amounts of flooding.
e. What kind of human settlements are found in the Equatorial forests?
They have extremely hot and humid climate. moreover the area is covered with dense forests. so the area is not good for human settlement as it is not feasible to build roads, and buildings. It is inhabited by tribal people