Main Difference
The main difference between Forest and Jungle is that the Forest is a dense collection of trees covering a relatively large area and Jungle is a an impassable dense forest (typically tropical).
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 (9.9×109 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, 8.11 for temperate forests, and 2.69 for boreal forests.Forests at different latitudes and elevations form distinctly different ecozones: boreal forests near the poles, tropical forests near the equator and temperate forests at mid-latitudes. Higher elevation areas tend to support forests similar to those at higher latitudes, and amount of precipitation also affects forest composition.
Human society and forests influence each other in both positive and negative ways. Forests provide ecosystem services to humans and serve as tourist attractions. Forests can also affect people’s health. Human activities, including harvesting forest resources, can negatively affect forest ecosystems.
Jungle
A jungle is land covered with dense vegetation dominated by trees. Application of the term has varied greatly during the past recent centuries. Before the 1970s, tropical rainforests were generally referred to as jungles but this terminology has fallen out of usage. Jungles in Western literature can represent a less civilised or unruly space outside the control of civilisation, attributed to the jungle’s association in colonial discourse with places colonised by Europeans.
Forest (noun)
A dense collection of trees covering a relatively large area. Larger than woods.
Forest (noun)
Any dense collection or amount.
“a forest of criticism”
Forest (noun)
A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.
Forest (noun)
A graph with no cycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.
Forest (noun)
A group of domains that are managed as a unit.
Forest (noun)
The colour forest green.
Forest (verb)
To cover an area with trees.
Jungle (noun)
A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals.
Jungle (noun)
A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.
“It’s a jungle out there.”
Jungle (noun)
An area where hobos camp together.
Jungle (noun)
A style of electronic music related to drum and bass.
Jungle (noun)
A migrant camp.
Jungle (noun)
a desert region
Jungle (noun)
a hairy vulva
Forest (noun)
a large area covered chiefly with trees and undergrowth
“a pine forest”
“a large tract of forest”
Forest (noun)
an area, typically owned by the sovereign and partly wooded, kept for hunting and having its own laws.
Forest (noun)
denoting an area that was formerly a royal forest
“Waltham Forest”
Forest (noun)
a large number or dense mass of vertical or tangled objects
“a forest of high-rise apartments”
Forest (verb)
cover (land) with forest; plant with trees
“a forested hillside”