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| A community of living animals and plants and their interactions with their non-living environment (air, water, soils) | Ecosystem |
| Continuous recycling of mineral nutrients (e.g. carbon and nitrogen) around an ecosystem between the atmosphere, soil and living organism | Nutrient cycle |
| A dense continuous upper layer to the rainforest, most photosynthesis takes place here | Canopy |
| Situated below the canopy. Saplings ready to advantage of a gap in the canopy above | Undercanopy |
| The tallest trees in the rainforest - may reach up to 50m | Emergents |
| Thick roots extending up to 10m up a tree, providing support for tall trees growing up towards the sunlight | Buttress Roots |
| Leaves have small tips at the end to funnel off heavy rainfall | Drip tips |
| Woody climbers that use trees to help them reach up towards the sunlight | Lianas |
| Characteristic of Tropical Rainforests due to their equatorial location. Intense heating occurs, warm air rises, cools and condenses forming thick clouds (often accompanied by storms) | Convectional Rainfall |
| The deliberate removal of trees - in this case from the rainforest | Deforestation |
| This is where although logging takes place it is managed to ensure that the forest is not damaged and that volumes of wood extracted are low. | Sustainable Logging |
| An alternative to timber for earning money from the rainforests (includes fibres; fruits; honey; seeds etc.) | Non-timber forest products |
| A traditional activity using the forest in a sustainable way as it doesn't involve the cutting down of the tree. Rubber is extracted from slits in the bark. | Rubber Tapping |