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
parasitic
rapid
regenerated
remote
Malaysia
Peru
Thailand
Venezuela
leaf litter
liana
national park
nutrient cycle
parasites
secondary
Some other geo names
photosynthesis
shrinking
straight
Equator
Tropic of Cancer
primary consumers
primary producers
sustainable
Tropic of Capricorn
secondary consumers
sweltering
selective felling
symbiotic
shifting cultivation
tall
tropical
unsustainable
vast
An Orang Utan in a rainforest refuge in the Malaysian state of
Sarawak, on the island of Borneo
This word mat was produced by www.sln.org.uk/geography from an adapted idea by Chesterton High School
The words for all pupils are in bold, most pupils are in normal and some pupils are in italic font
slash and burn
sustainable development
symbiosis
understorey