Trees
Geography Inquiry Project
Trees
Trees are the most commonly used, renewable resources. Trees are used for multiple reasons such as for furniture, paper etc. We are also very dependent on the fact that they give us oxygen to breathe. There are many types of trees, for example, white oak and maple trees. Trees come in various heights and sizes as well!
Needs for Trees
Trees supply us with many things, which is why we need them. Trees help create objects such as paper, furniture, pencils and etc. We also get many nutrients from trees and oxygen. Trees also help filter the air, and it absorbs pollutants. This is also why we enjoy the outdoors so much! We also get food from trees like bananas and mangoes, as well as medicine! Tools can be made from trees to so they can be strong. We also have made houses out of wood known as log houses and cabins. If we never had trees many of these things would be impossible to do.
Procedure of Extraction
Step One ~ Felling
Felling is when the tree is the procedure of taking down the tree. This could happen by either sawing the tree down or chopping it with an ax, which is an old way of getting a tree down.
Step Two ~ Extraction
Extraction is when the trees are taken out of the forest area, to where the trucks are so they are out of the way for other tree chopping.
Step Three ~ Processing
Processing is when the trees are cut into logs so they can be gathered together and fit into the trucks, the branches are also chopped off.
Step Four ~ Loading
The trees are now being organized together and placed into the trucks, ready to go to a mill.
Step Five ~ Trucking
The logs are then delivered to mills so they can be used.
Creation
The wood is then used to make various other objects :)
Impact of Extraction
Once trees are taken down its easier for us people to create buildings! We can simply use the wood of the trees we take down for paper and etc. and use the rest of the land for houses and buildings. Then there is simply less damage done to the environment. Though it doesn't seem like it, but the environment gets really damaged when we remove the trees from the forest area. Usually when trees are cut down no one ever plants a tree to replace it, which is bad for the environment. When all the trees in a jungle or forest are extracted, many wildlife are forced to leave their homes and shelters because we took it away. Usually when trees are cut down no one ever plants a tree to replace it, which is bad for the environment.
How to Reduce Negative Impacts on Extraction
We all use paper in our everyday lives, either it be lined paper or blank. That very paper comes from trees. If we use both sides of that paper and use up as much of the page we have before we get a new one, we can reduce the amount of paper consumption done, which reduces the amount of trees needed to be cut down. To increase the amount of trees grown we can plant a new tree whenever one tree is extracted from the Earth so we can balance out our actions. Instead of going to places where many animals are inhabited in, we can choose places with an adjustable amount of trees and with less wildlife.
Here is short a video on trees being loaded into a truck and an audio clip on a tree being chopped down
Loading trees on a truck in Russia
Cutting Down A Tree by el557116
Bibliography
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