🌧️Amazon Extra Flashcards
What do temperature range from
28C
What % of moisture remains in the ecosystems water cycle
50-80%
What % of rainfall reaches the sea
30%
How much of the rainforest has been lost in the last 50 years
17%
What rate was the Amazon deforested at between 2000 and 2007
20,000km per year - larger than Greece
What % of deforestation is due to cattle ranching
80%
What % did the Brazilian Amazon population grow between 2000 and 2010
23%
What river flooded ___km2 and displaced ___ locals
. Xingu
. 400km2
. 12,000 locals
Location with daily rainfall delay and what is that delay and from when
. Rondonia has an 18 day delay since 1970s
Deforestation could cause a __% decline in regional rainfall
20%
How much carbon is immediately released when burnt for land clearance
30-60% of carbon
How many tonnes of carbon does the Amazon store
80-120 billion
How big is para rainforest reserve
15million hectares
ACTO
Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation
How many members are in ACTO
8
What does ACTO want to promote
Sustainable development
When did the TARAPOTO process begin
1995
What is the TARAPOTO process
8 member countries identified have 12 criteria to help manage the forest sustainably at management nationally and globally
Who has REDD been recognised by
Paris Agreement so legally binding
What is REDD
Rich countries should pay poor countries not to cut down trees.
How much was pledged to support REDD
$4.5 billion
Local policy to stop climate change
Reforestation and afforestation
The government have established a ____ to reduce _____
land registry to reduce land grabbing and illegal logging and cattle ranching
Government has a sophisticated system of
monitoring deforestation using satellites and aeroplanes which can detect large-scale illegal clearances.
What happens to process in cold conditions
Slow don and are less effective
Fires in Indonesia have contributed over _____ tons of carbon dioxide
Billion
For every ____ of forest consumed in a wildfire ___ CO2 is emitted
Hectare
170 tons
Volcanic activity returns……
Carbon that has been trapped in the lithosphere for millions of years
Currently, volcanoes emit between ____ and _____ of Co2 each year, by comparison, human activities release _______ as a result of burning fossil fuels
. 130-180 million tonnes
. Humans - 30 billions tonnes
What % of anthropogenic carbon release comes from the combustion of fossil fuels
90%
Fossil fuels are extracted from rock that are ___ years old
70-100 million
What % of carbon is absorbed by oceans and vegetation and who absorbs the rest
50% by oceans/vegetation and 50% by atmosphere
Cattle in the US emit ____ of methane and in 2011 made up _____% of all agricultural emissions
5.5 million tonnes
39%
When could farming be carbon neutral
2030
In the 1990s, the Amazon was absorbing ____, by 2015 this had decreased to just _____
2bn tonnes, now only 1bn tonnes
Since the 1960s, global concentrations of Co2 have increased significantly from _____ to _____
320ppm to 400ppm
