Tropical Forests
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay
Index
- Tropical Forests As Ecosystems
- Distribution and Climate
- An Amazing Strategy
- What's All the Fuss?
- Endangered?
- Do You Know?
- Now Try This!
- Vocabulary
- Suggested Readings/Bibliography
Goals of the Busch Gardens Conservation Information Department
Based on a long-term commitment to education, Busch Gardens strives to increase every student's knowledge and awareness of wildlife and to engender an appreciation of nature and a commitment to its conservation. Specific learning goals for Tropical Forests are that ...
- Students will conclude that plants help maintain other living organisms as well as habitats.
- Students will locate the geographic range for tropical forests.
- Students will recognize some of the causes of deforestation.
- Students will realize that people depend on forest products for food, fuel, shelter, and medicines.
- Students will learn that tropical forests form layers of habitats.
- Students will discover tropical forests as natural resources.
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." John Muir, Naturalist
