The table shows forested land in millions of hectares in different parts of the world. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The table shows forested land in millions of hectares in different parts of the world.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The table illustrates how many
hectares
of forested land there are in Africa, Asia, Europe, North
America
, Oceania and South
America
in the years 1990, 2000 and 2005. The
hectares
has
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been measured in millions.
Overall
, the most noticeable trend is that
,
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there have not been many variations in the figure of
hectares
in the years in the
diffrent
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different
countries evaluated. The millions of
hectares
of forested land decreased for Africa, Oceania and South
America
, both in 1990, 2000 and 2005,
while
there has
been
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a slight increase in the number of
hectares
for Europe and Asia, from 1990 to 2005. The most decline in forested land happened in South
America
, from 946
million
in 1990 to 882
million
in 2005,
whereas
the least decrease was in Oceania,
only
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2
million
less
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, from 199 in 1990 to 197 in 2005. Regarding
to
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the biggest growth,
this
belongs to Europe, forested area rose
12
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million
of
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hectares
from 1990 to 2005.
Also
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Asia expanded the
hectares
, but in 2000, it dipped
in
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6
million
. The millions of
hectares
remained constant for North
America
between 2000 and 2005 in 705
million
.

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Vocabulary: Replace the words hectares, america, million with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "decreased" was used 2 times.

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Hectares
  • Forested land
  • Regions
  • Distribution
  • Trends
  • Historical data
  • Deforestation
  • Urbanization
  • Outliers
  • Proportionately
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