Hike through Forests of the World Activity Guide

Hike through Forests of the World Activity Guide

1. What are the stipulations for reprinting PLT materials?

2. What are the primary objectives for students who participate in activities from this guide?

3. Which five countries are the most forested?

4. What is the Montreal Process? What countries are involved??  

5. How do you know if a word can be found in the glossary?  

6. What is the World Forestry Center?

7. Where can you find correlations to national academic standards in science and social studies?  

8. Name two activities that help to teach Geography?

9. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations classifies forests into five basic
climate groupings.  What are they and how are they determined?

10. Where can you find information about the conceptual framework for PLT?  What five themes are 
addressed through PLT’s activities?    

11. What are five major human activities that are affecting forest cover?  

12. Where can you find information on production, trade, and consumption of forest products?

13. What are ways that a teacher might use the World Forest Tour cards found in the Student Pages 
on pages 23‐30?

14. What is carbon sequestration?

15. What six components make up an environmental issue?                                                                                             

16. What are PLT’s goals?  

17. How does feeding the world’s hungry affect forests?

18. Using the Global Connections map, look at the area along the equator and the tropics.  What do 
you notice about forest coverage in relation to these lines?

19. Using the Global Ecological Zones map, where are most of the world’s temperate oceanic forests 
located?  

20. Where can you find recommendations for media resources to support use of the activities? 

Updated 9/25/2025