Forum 3.5 - Importance of Trees

3/21/2017

Guiding Thought Question: List 5 reasons why it is important to protect trees/forests, and one reason why it is not.

Today's Learning Objective: Students will learn about the causes and effects of deforestation and be able to come up with local, national, and international examples of efforts to conserve forests.

24 Comments

Maddy Gimpy

4/1/2019 11:29:33 am

Pro:
1. Oxygen- (duh)
2. Carbon Sink- (y'all want climate change to get worse)?
3. Habitat- (endangered species)
4. Ground Protection- (land and mudslides)
5. Weather (Some forests create their own climate without the trees there would be serious impacts for the area).

Con:
1. Economy (Some countries need more room for people and agriculture. The resources they gather from the forest are essential for their countries economy).

Caitlin

4/3/2019 07:41:39 am

1. It is home to many animals and plants that deserve to be protected
2. It provides many resources like food
3. If we take care of the forests and plant sustainably, we can use some lumber (but not too much)
4. They can be important for national parks and ecotourism
5. You shouldn't cut them down because you will contribute to climate change

1. Forests are good so I'm not sure about reasons to cut them down. You can make a profit off of destroying them, but this is only short term and the trees and animals will be sad :(

figs ju

4/3/2019 07:44:10 am

1. Fruits
2. Shade
3. Oxygen
4. Eats CO2
5. Homes for animals

George

4/3/2019 07:45:13 am

1 oxygen and carbon dioxide
2 it’s pretty
3 habitats to many animals
4 food
5 eco tourism

1 economics

Anderson

4/3/2019 07:45:50 am

1. Oxygen and nutrient cycling systems
2.Aesthetics
3. Habitat for species
4.Natural resources
5.Soil

1. Land can be developed by humans

Deja

4/3/2019 12:19:52 pm

oxygen
shade
habitat
natural resources
food

Blake

4/3/2019 12:21:07 pm

theyre cool
they bring rain
and they clean the air
and they are a cool place to camp
and we get oxygen

silver fright

4/3/2019 12:23:53 pm

1. oxygen
2. they get rid of carbon dioxide
3. habitat for many animals
4. they're pretty
5. they bring water through the soil

why they're not important: they can be easily infected

Sydney

4/3/2019 12:25:00 pm

important
1. habitat
2. oxygen
3. soil protection
4. water cycle
5. carbon sink
not important
1. land development

Maxican

4/3/2019 12:27:37 pm

clean air
animals
tourism
trees
history

They can hold back development

stock

4/3/2019 12:28:04 pm

- carbon vacuums
-prevent desertification
- habitat for animals
- natural resource

nelson

4/3/2019 12:28:43 pm

Oxygen
habitat
shelter
scenery
some produce fruit and stuff

their sap gets you sticky

eliana

4/3/2019 12:34:49 pm

they help with oxygen
shelter for people and animal
food
they take for land opportunity

4/3/2019 12:35:17 pm

oxygen
take away CO2
great location for scary movies
habitat
holds land together or protection for ground

land we could use for people houses and such

wynot

4/3/2019 12:36:18 pm

1. Oxygen
2. Habitat
3. clean the air
4. Vacation spot
5. Pretty

1. Economy

4/3/2019 01:16:57 pm

Pros: Oxygen
habitats for animals
ground substances
growing of nutrients

Cons: die off at some point every year

Daniel Opperman

4/9/2019 08:55:50 am

Oxygen
Environment for animals
Prevent climate change
Weather
Keeps sediment held down (mangrove trees in sundarbans)

Not:it is easy to disregard them is because we can get rid of them and make more factories for more money

delaney r

4/9/2019 08:58:40 am

oxygen
habitat
co2
growing nutrients
landscapes
-resources/ the economy

Ka Zin

4/9/2019 09:00:18 am

1. provide air
2. home for animals and plants
3. clean air
4. the trees are used for lodging
5. shelter for humans

1. If you want to end the world quicker then burn the forests

Lyndon

4/9/2019 09:00:29 am

Oxygen
Homes
Nature
Food
Forest

Need more space

Eleanor Dunning

4/9/2019 09:01:13 am

1) Oxygen
2) Animals depend on them
3) They provide shade
4) Resources for us
5) Wind blocker

Its not important because we need paper

Griffithdor

4/9/2019 09:01:52 am

1. They convert the carbon dioxide into oxygen for us to breath
2. Forests protect thousands of diverse species of plants/animals that are not able to live anywhere else
3. They protect from soil erosion
4. They are a unique biome that should be protected already
5. cleans the atmosphere

Not important because we can use them to create many products from the trees and the space cleared by them

4/9/2019 09:03:45 am

Good:
Oxygen
Habitat
Weather
Natural Resource
Food
"Bad":
can fall on people which I guess is bad
take up space which humans have convinced themselves is theirs

Ferro

4/9/2019 09:05:45 am

1. animals habitats (endanger)
2. they provide resources for us
3. oxygen
4. We'll kill ourselves faster if we don't
5. finding potential cures for diseases

1. we have to kill some trees in order for the forests to thrive ( controlled burns)
2. space

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