Special English for Forestry

Special English for Forestry

Contents

Preface .............................................................................. 9
Unit 1. What is forestry? ...................................................11
Unit 2. Soil profile .............................................................14
Unit 3. Soil chemistry and plant nutrients .........................18
Unit 4. How plants get water and nutrients .......................22
Unit 5. The morphology of a flower .................................25
Unit 6. cell structure of the leaf ........................................29
Unit 7. conditions necessary for plant growth ..................33
Unit 8. forest floor life ......................................................37
Unit 9. The useful forests ..................................................41
Unit 10. Why trees are important? ....................................45
Unit 11. The tree in the forest ...........................................48
Unit 12. raising young trees ..............................................52
Unit 13. Trees and their timbers ........................................55
Unit 14. The tree and the forester ......................................58
Unit 15. Harvesting timber crops .......................................62
Unit 16. Plant reproduction ................................................65
Unit 17. Soil erosion ..........................................................70
Unit 18. coniferous forests, evergreen regions ...................73
Unit 19. Tropical forests – Magical rainforests ..................77
Unit 20. How is the forest affected by acid rain? ................83
Unit 21. Weeding and cleaning ...........................................87
Unit 22. Types of wood – ParT I .........................................92
Unit 23. Softwoods – ParT II ...............................................99
Unit 24. The hidden world of tree roots ...............................104
Unit 25. fire behavior ............................................................111
APPENDIX I .........................................................................117
APPENDIX II ........................................................................120