Of this, 36% are primary forests, which have taken hundreds of years to grow and cannot be replaced in our lifetime. Only about 5% of our planetâs land cover is rainforest, roughly equivalent to the size of Australia. That may seem like a lot, but our rainforests are being destroyed at the rate of over 80,000 acres (32,000 hectares) per day! 11 ways in which our forests are being destroyed.
Another word for consistent word list. Below are a number of words whose meaning is similar to consistent. 1  accordant. 2  compatible. 3  conformable. 4  congruous. 5  harmonious. 6  suitable. 7  uniform.
Foods like puddings and gravies need to be the correct consistency â that is, the right thickness or texture â for the dish. It would not be good, for example, for gravy to have the consistency of cottage cheese. The noun consistency also refers to uniformity or compatibility between things or parts. For example, you might need to check the consistency of spelling in a document or the consistency among eye-witness accounts of a crime. Consistency usually implies a positive sense of dependability.