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FOREST A  forest  is a large area dominated by  trees . Hundreds of more precise definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing and ecological function. According to the widely used  Food and Agriculture Organization  definition, forests covered 4 billion hectares (9.9 × 10 9  acres) (15 million square miles) or approximately 30 percent of the world's land area in 2006. Forests are the dominant terrestrial  ecosystem  of Earth, and are distributed around the globe. Forests account for 75% of the  gross primary production  of the Earth's  biosphere , and contain 80% of the Earth's plant biomass. Net primary production is estimated at 21.9  gigatonnes  carbon per year for  tropical forests , 8.1 for  temperate forests , and 2.6 for  boreal forests .

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE Jump to navigation Jump to search Th eory of multiple intelligences  differentiates human intelligence into specific 'modalities', rather than seeing intelligence as dominated by a single general ability. Howard Gardner proposed this model in his 1983 book  Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences . According to the theory, an intelligence 'modality' must fulfill eight criteria potential for brain isolation by brain damage place in evolutionary history presence of core operations susceptibility to encoding (symbolic expression) a distinct developmental progression the existence of savants, prodigies and other exceptional people support from experimental psychology support from psychometric findings Gardner proposed eight abilities that he held to meet these criteria musical-rhythmic, visual-spatial , verbal-linguistic , logical-mathematical, bodily-kinest...