Geography

• Distribution: The location of things arranged over a geographic area or the shipment of products across the world
• Adaptation- Specific characteristics animals have developed to help them survive in their environment.
• Deforestation- The intensive, large-scale cutting down of trees
• Sustainable development: Development that meets the needs of the present and is both good for the environment, good for the people, and economically viable
• Selective Logging: Actively choosing which trees to cut down and which to leave, depending on which are needed.
• Conservation: The preservation of certain species, both animal and plant
• Shifting agriculture- Sustainable farming where a small area of trees are cut down then burnt so the ash can fertilise the soil, then plants grown there until the soil is no longer fertile. Then you move on, giving the trees and plants a chance to recover.
• Local- Only affects a small area
• Global- Affects the whole world
• Ecotourism: tourism to natural areas that conserves the wildlife, is good for the local people and educates you.
• Sweatshop: A large factory packed full of workers operating under unsafe conditions for low wages, often in developing countries.
• Consumer: The buyer of products
• Code of Conduct: A set of rules and regulations organisations have to live by which aim to lessen discrimination, make work environments safer, raise wages and outlaw child labour.
• Child labour- The illegal employment of an underage child.
• Tropical rainforests are often located on or near the equator, between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. E.g, West and Central Africa, South East Asia and North East Australasia.