Global Connections: Forests of the World : Activity 3: Mapping the World's Forests

Activity 3: Mapping the World's Forests

Identifying, documenting, classifying, and accurately mapping the diversity of forests found around the world is an active, ongoing process. Students examine a holistic system of global ecological zones used to classify the world's forests.

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