DEFORESTATION
Environmental Science with Lab
Sabbir Chowdhury
November 1, 2015
ILAB 1

Exercise 1: Discuss 5 products that come from tropical rain forests.
Tropical rain forest consist of many types of products, because of deforestation many types of plants and products are getting demolished. This is a negative sign for the rainforest because the more deforestation there is the smaller the chance of finding rain forest products. Some of the products which you will find in the rain forest are Pharmaceuticals plants which are very tough to find. Strychnine is a plant which is used for heart disease. Curare is plant used for relaxation for the muscle. Some others products you can find are Guava, Avocado, Coconut Oil. If deforestation continues then there is a high risk chance of finding these products in future (Tropical Rainforest Resources , n.d.).
Exercise 2: With clear examples, discuss 5 major causes of deforestation.
Major causes of deforestation are human population, logging, agriculture, urbanization, and plantation. There are more than 7 billion population in this world, and to accommodate everyone’s and new born coming to everyday life, we will need more lands and houses to build for them. Logging is another cause of deforestation. All of the wood based industry such as furniture’s, papers etc are need of so many wood supply. Wood is used as a fuel for so many reasons, and this requires the need of chopping down so many trees. Agriculture is one of the major reason for deforestation. Since there is overgrowing need of food then many trees are cut down for crops purposes and cattle gazing. In terms of urbanization, building roads and making spaces for people stay requires trees. With the small cities and countries with huge population more spaces are needed for people to stay and establish houses. Trees are used to make roads for those cities and countries. Coal and Oil mining plantation requires a lot of spaces so deforestation is really effected when you are making space for plantation (Deforestation: Compromises of a Growing World, n.d.).
Exercise 3: Discuss 2 reasons why this is very difficult, especially in the Amazon Tropical Rain Forest. Stooping deforestation at Amazon Tropical Rain can be very difficult. The first reason is the growth human population and their needs. As the population grows there is in need of more lands and resources to fulfil their needs. Second reason would be supply needs, for agriculture, urbanization, and logging needs. Many big cooperation’s and company uses the Rainforest to chopped down the trees to build and gain more products to use for their own purposes (Deforestation of Tropical Rain Forest , n.d.).
Exercise 4: Looking at the Water and Carbon Cycle (chapters 3 & 10), discuss how deforestation impacts these two cycles.
The Water Cycle and Carbon Cycle are both impacted by deforestation but in different ways. The Water Cycle is impacted because if there is no tree then it loses its way to get the water from earth to the land and going back up to the atmosphere. Since the roots of the trees help to absorb the water and sent the water back up to the atmosphere this process may not occur anymore if all the trees are gone. The process of the Carbon Cycle is almost the same but opposite. Deforestation can affect the Carbon Cycle because it will slow down the process of photosynthesis and the cycle from the sun to the plant to the earth because there is now way to complete the whole cycle (The Carbon Cycle , n.d.)

References
Deforestation of Tropical Rain Forest . (n.d.). Retrieved from Rain Forest Report Card: http://www.trfic.msu.edu/rfrc/status.html
Deforestation: Compromises of a Growing World. (n.d.). Retrieved from Conserve Energy Future: http://www.conserve-energy-future.com/causes-effects-solutions-of-deforestation.php
The Carbon Cycle . (n.d.). Retrieved from The Carbon Cycle : http://thecarboncycledio.weebly.com/deforesation.html
Tropical Rainforest Resources . (n.d.). Retrieved from Folk Life : http://www.folklife.si.edu/resources/maroon/foodways/more.htm
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