Tropical Rainforest- Amazon Flashcards

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Climate

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Unifom thru year, temperatures high and constant

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Causes of climate

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Sun is directly overhead and rays have to travel through less of atmosphere, high annual rainfall

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Causes of rainfall

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Convectional thunderstorms most days, convection caused by warm air brought by trade winds,

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Winds

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No significant winds

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5
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Ocean currents

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No real effect aince equatorial climates are inland

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Altitude

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Equatorial climates are low-lying

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Vegetation

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Emergent trees grow 60M, few branches on tall trunks to focus on growing upward, most trees in canopy layes w/ little sunlight so have dark leaves to maximise photosynthesis,

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Deforestation

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1/3 of trees, 15-40% has been cleared, slash and burn farming by tribes, 25M peasants subsistence farming, 5300km Amazonian highway

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Effects

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thousands of unknows species threatened, could lose cure for diseases, loss of tribe traditions, global balancd of oxygen and carbon affected

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Ways to protect it

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Zones for different activities, laws, restrict heavy destructive machinery

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