Tropical Rainforest- Amazon

Question 1

Climate

Answer 1

Unifom thru year, temperatures high and constant

Question 2

Causes of climate

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Causes of rainfall

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Winds

Answer 4

No significant winds

Question 5

Ocean currents

Answer 5

No real effect aince equatorial climates are inland

Question 6

Altitude

Answer 6

Equatorial climates are low-lying

Question 7

Vegetation

Answer 7

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,

Question 8

Deforestation

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Effects

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Ways to protect it

Answer 10

Zones for different activities, laws, restrict heavy destructive machinery