Starter quiz
- Name the world’s largest land biome, found in the Northern hemisphere.
- polar
- desert
- boreal forest ✓
- tropical rainforest
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- Name the keyword defined: people who are the original inhabitants of a place, rather than people who moved from elsewhere.
- Indigenous ✓
- migrants
- rural to urban migrant
- urban to rural migrant
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- What keyword is defined here: something to do with the countryside.
- 'rural' ✓
- Which of the following are examples of urban areas?
- London - the capital city of the UK ✓
- St. Petersburg - Russia's second largest city ✓
- The New Forest - a national park in the UK
- Siberia - an area of Northeastern Russia where there is less than 1 person/km2
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- Name the keyword defined: moving from one place to another for a long period or permanently.
- 'migration' ✓
- How is the climate changing due to human interference?
- warming ✓
- cooling
- skipping back and forth from ice ages to warm periods
- staying the same
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Exit quiz
Which of the following countries can the Saami be found in?- Denmark
- Estonia
- Russia ✓
- Finland ✓
- Sweden ✓
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- Traditional ways of life in the boreal forest, like those of the Saami are being threatened by ...
- commercial projects. ✓
- climate change. ✓
- migration to rural areas.
- migration to urban areas. ✓
- community projects to promote Indigenous culture.
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- Which of these threats to boreal forests are specifically due to energy production?
- mining for fossil fuels such as oil and natural gas ✓
- construction of hydroelectric dam ✓
- logging
- construction
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- Deforestation has led to the fragmentation of the woodland that caribou live in. This has disrupted their ______ routes and access to essential resources.
- 'migration' ✓
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Key learning points
- Communities such as the Saami live in parts of the boreal forest, they are traditionally reindeer herders.
- Traditional ways of life in the boreal forest are being threatened.
- Deforestation is rapidly reducing the size of boreal forests to make way for human activity.
- Deforestation has led to the fragmentation of the woodland caribou habitat.
Common misconception
All Indigenous people have a traditional lifestyle.
Indigenous people may have a traditional lifestyle, e.g. reindeer herders, or may have taken on less traditional lifestyles and/or migrated.
Keywords
Boreal forest - the world’s largest land biome, found in the Northern hemisphere
Indigenous - people who are the original inhabitants of a place, rather than people who moved from elsewhere
Rural - something to do with the countryside
Urban - something to do with a city or town
Migration - moving from one place to another with the intention of staying there
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