In this video, we are going to use the Geography Visualiser to locate different types of forest around the world. Now a few things about the Geography Visualiser to get started. First of all, if I want to move the map, all I need to do is hold the left button down of the mouse and drag it from one side to the other. If I want to zoom in or out, I can use the scroll wheel of the mouse, or I can use these buttons on the left hand side to zoom in and out. If I want to search for a place, I can use this little magnifying glass. But a lot of the things that we're going to use today are in this bottom toolbar. It says "Basemaps", "Open map", "Map layers". Now what you are seeing at the moment is a satellite image of the world, but on top of it is the borders of the countries and it's actually got the names of some countries written on it as well. And we call this an imagery hybrid map. And this is just one type of base map. I can change the base map so you see a different background map. I want to by clicking on this "Basemaps" button down here, but I'm not going to do that right now. What I want to do though is I want to add a layer of data. And the great things about GIS is that we can take data and create a map showing that data so that we can understand geographical patterns. So the way I'm going to do that today is I'm going to click on this button at the bottom where it says "Open map". And you can see lots of different map layers here, all with different types of data. So it could be data about global cities and how big they are, or about rainfall and temperature. But we're not going to go on that. I'm gonna use the scroll wheel of my mouse to go down and I'm going to click on where it says "School Digital Atlas-Biomes". And there we go. Once it comes on, you can see it's now changed to just a satellite image of the world, but then it loads these colors onto the map. So this is what we call a choropleth map where we use colors to show different bits of data. And this is actually showing the different biomes of the world. And a biome is kind of a huge, large ecosystem over a wide area with similar wildlife and plants. But the problem is at the moment, it does have these colors, but we don't really know what they are. So what we need to do is we need to go to where it says, "Legend". And if I click on the "Legend" we can see that the colors show different things. The dark green, for example, is tropical forest. And three of these biomes are types of forest. The tropical forest, which is tropical rainforest is dark green. Temperate forest, which is kind of a light green color. And taiga, which is boreal forest, kind of coniferous forest. So you can imagine trees that keep their leaves all year round. A good way of showing this actually is by clicking "Interactive". And I can just put the three types of forests that we're going to look at today onto the map. And you can see there now we've just got these tropical forests, in the dark green, we've got the temperate forests in the light green and the purple, which is taiga, and they're much easier to see. Now what we would like to do today is to give a location about where these different types of forests are and what we really need on this map at the moment are reference points, things we can use to help describe where these maps are, where these forests are. So at the bottom toolbar, I'm going to click on "Map layers" again and you'll see that everything's come back. But I need to click on where it says "Major Parallels and Meridians". I need to click on the visibility for this. So I'm going to click on this and what you will see is you'll suddenly see the equator, this yellow line which has come across the middle, you've got what we call the prime meridian, which runs through Greenwich in London, we've got the Tropic of Cancer, the Tropic of Capricorn, and if we zoom out, you can actually see the Arctic circle and the Antarctic circle. And these are really useful for us because they help us to describe where these different forests are. So if I go back to the "Legend" and I click on "Interactive" again, and I'm just going to put on the tropical forests for now, I'm gonna take off the taiga and the temperate forest, and we're just going to have the tropical forests on. And all of a sudden, it's a lot easier to see where these tropical forests are. So look carefully, where do you think most of these tropical forests are in the world? What can we use to help describe? Yes, so I would say that the majority of the tropical forests are between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. So we don't get too many tropical forests north of the Tropic of cancer and south of the Tropic of Capricorn. So not all, but the majority of tropical forests we find around the equator and between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. And these are rainforests that we can imagine that we would find here. Okay, let's do the same again with the temperate forest. I'm gonna take off the tropical forest and just have the temperate forest on the map. And we can see that we find them in what we call the southern hemisphere, south of the equator and the northern hemisphere, north of the equator. But they're not between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn anymore, are they? They're north of the Tropic of Cancer and south of the Tropic of Capricorn. So I would say that temperate forests, so these are kind of mixed woodlands. So in the UK you would find things like oak and beach and birch woodlands in the UK. We would find these in areas between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic circle get a view just north of that. But this is where you will find the vast majority and you will find the majority in the southern hemisphere between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic circle. And finally, let's just look at taiga, sometimes called this boreal forest. I'll take the temperate forest off when we put the taiga on. And if I zoom out here, you'll see that all of this taiga is coniferous forest, it's actually the northern hemisphere. We don't have any in the south. And it's pretty far north, isn't it? Now the majority is still between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic circle, but now it does, you do get taiga boreal forest stretching north of the Arctic circle as well. But we can see that this, these are forests that you find in the far north of the world in places like Canada and Russia. So you can see here how GIS can be really useful for locating different forests about around the world and showing where they are.