The Amazon
- Created by: Amy Woodhams
- Created on: 01-04-13 15:48
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- The Amazon
- climate
- temp.
- highest
- 29 degrees c
- April
- lowest
- 27 degrees c
- December
- highest
- rainfall
- highest
- 215 mm
- August
- lowest
- 150 mm
- August
- highest
- why
- not a big range in temp
- because it is near the equator
- big jumps in the rainfall averages
- the equator causes two seasons, wet and dry, not 4
- not a big range in temp
- temp.
- nutrient cycle
- normally
- litter decomposes
- Nutrient enters the soil
- soil is fertile
- dense vegetation
- dead organisms fall to the ground as 'litter'
- litter decomposes
- Nutrient enters the soil
- soil is fertile
- dense vegetation
- dead organisms fall to the ground as 'litter'
- dead organisms fall to the ground as 'litter'
- dense vegetation
- soil is fertile
- Nutrient enters the soil
- litter decomposes
- dead organisms fall to the ground as 'litter'
- dense vegetation
- soil is fertile
- Nutrient enters the soil
- litter decomposes
- broken- deforestation
- less leaf litter
- decomposers will starve
- affecting food chain
- fewer nutrient enters soil
- other plants will die
- affecting food chain
- soil becomes less fertile
- less vegetation
- fewer leaves fall to the ground
- less leaf litter
- decomposers will starve
- fewer nutrient enters soil
- other plants will die
- soil becomes less fertile
- less vegetation
- fewer leaves fall to the ground
- fewer leaves fall to the ground
- less vegetation
- other plants will die
- decomposers will starve
- less leaf litter
- fewer leaves fall to the ground
- less vegetation
- other plants will die
- decomposers will starve
- less leaf litter
- normally
- economic activity
- mining
- impacts on the environment
- make transport links
- use chemicals
- deforestation
- take water for irrigation & community
- pollute air
- generators
- pollute river
- petrol boats
- wash dry soil into the river
- changes ecosystem
- petrol boats
- changes ecosystem
- impact on people
- dangerous
- taught skills
- high crime rates
- cramped
- provides money
- £70 per 3 days
- more than most jobs
- £70 per 3 days
- hard work
- 12 hour shifts
- impacts on the environment
- logging
- impacts on people
- $45 per meter
- most goes to company
- men get £50 per log to split
- essential wages
- men get £50 per log to split
- most goes to company
- deforestation
- reduction in the number of tribes
- from 6 million to 200,000
- destruction of their traditional culture and way of life
- forcing those who stay to live of reservations
- destruction of their traditional culture and way of life
- from 6 million to 200,000
- reduction in the number of tribes
- $45 per meter
- impacts on people
- farming
- impacts on the people
- hard work
- long hours
- good business for the last 4 years
- money attracts people= population increase
- from 2 million to 30 million+
- in only 40 years
- from 2 million to 30 million+
- money attracts people= population increase
- good business for the last 4 years
- long hours
- large parts of the forest has been destroyed
- to accomadate
- hard work
- impacts on the people
- mining
- Protecting the Amazon
- IBAMA
- authority to punish illigal logers
- fines and shut down sites
- but
- only 10% pay
- limited resorces
- 3 officers cover a space the size of France
- but
- fines and shut down sites
- authority to punish illigal logers
- National institute for Amazon reasurch
- scientists
- stopping deforestation will reduce CO2 emissions
- valuing the rainforest
- measure CO2 levels to see how the Amazon helps global warming
- worth more alive than dead
- 6 million tons of CO"
- measure CO2 levels to see how the Amazon helps global warming
- scientists
- IBAMA
- climate
- location
- upper section of Brazil
- south of the Equator
- The Amazon
- climate
- temp.
- highest
- 29 degrees c
- April
- lowest
- 27 degrees c
- December
- highest
- rainfall
- highest
- 215 mm
- August
- lowest
- 150 mm
- August
- highest
- why
- not a big range in temp
- because it is near the equator
- big jumps in the rainfall averages
- the equator causes two seasons, wet and dry, not 4
- not a big range in temp
- temp.
- nutrient cycle
- normally
- broken- deforestation
- normally
- economic activity
- mining
- impacts on the environment
- make transport links
- use chemicals
- deforestation
- take water for irrigation & community
- pollute air
- generators
- pollute river
- wash dry soil into the river
- changes ecosystem
- changes ecosystem
- wash dry soil into the river
- impact on people
- dangerous
- taught skills
- high crime rates
- cramped
- provides money
- £70 per 3 days
- more than most jobs
- £70 per 3 days
- hard work
- 12 hour shifts
- impacts on the environment
- logging
- impacts on people
- $45 per meter
- most goes to company
- men get £50 per log to split
- essential wages
- men get £50 per log to split
- most goes to company
- deforestation
- reduction in the number of tribes
- from 6 million to 200,000
- destruction of their traditional culture and way of life
- forcing those who stay to live of reservations
- destruction of their traditional culture and way of life
- from 6 million to 200,000
- reduction in the number of tribes
- $45 per meter
- impacts on people
- farming
- impacts on the people
- hard work
- long hours
- good business for the last 4 years
- money attracts people= population increase
- from 2 million to 30 million+
- in only 40 years
- from 2 million to 30 million+
- money attracts people= population increase
- good business for the last 4 years
- long hours
- large parts of the forest has been destroyed
- to accomadate
- hard work
- impacts on the people
- mining
- Protecting the Amazon
- IBAMA
- authority to punish illigal logers
- fines and shut down sites
- but
- only 10% pay
- limited resorces
- 3 officers cover a space the size of France
- but
- fines and shut down sites
- authority to punish illigal logers
- National institute for Amazon reasurch
- scientists
- stopping deforestation will reduce CO2 emissions
- valuing the rainforest
- measure CO2 levels to see how the Amazon helps global warming
- worth more alive than dead
- 6 million tons of CO"
- measure CO2 levels to see how the Amazon helps global warming
- scientists
- IBAMA
- climate
- covers the Amazon River basin
- This basin covers 1.7 billion acres
- Of which 1.4 billion acres are covered by the rainforest
- This basin covers 1.7 billion acres
- easy to forge documents
- split equally
- the settlement
- less resources for tribes
- kill wild life and their resorces
- petrol boats
- with disease
- kill wild life and their resorces
- petrol boats
- kill wild life and their resorces
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