Amazon Rainforest Case study

How many km*2 is it?

What % of earth species can be found there?

How many countries does it occupy?

What is one of the names of the above countries?

What is the name of the river that flows through it?

Is the elevation relatively low or high?

In what compass directions is there a mountain range

Name of the above mountain range?

Name of one country containing the above mountain range?

Where is sedimentary rock found within the Amazon?

Is sedimentary rock permeable of impermeable?

Name an example of a sedimentary rock that can be found?

Where are shields of basaltic rock found within the Amazon?

Is basaltic rock permeable of impermeable?

What is the name of the rock that can be found in the West of the Amazon?

Is the above rock permeable of impermeable?

What is the average temperature?

How much rainfall in mm per year?

What % of the water is recycled via evapotranspiration?

What % of the water is intercepted by trees?

What is the process of trees creating their own rain by sucking up water from the flow, moving through the plant and then rising.

Does it have a fast or slow carbon cycle?

What is Net Primary Productivity in grams/m*2/year?

What is the cause of high levels of decomposition and rainfall?

How many tonnes of biomass is stored in the trees (billions of tonnes)?

What % of the Amazon has been deforested in the past 20 years?

What are the key causes of deforestation of the Amazon?

What is the predicted % of fall in rainfall due to deforestation?

How much carbon do soy beans store (tonnes/hectare)?

How much carbon does rainforest store (tonnes/hectare)?

What % of the Amazon do Amazon RegionalProtection Areas (ARPAs) occupy as of 2015?

Name of aiming to restore areas of the rainforest by changing farms to farm trees?

How many km*2 of commercial timber has The Paricia Project planted?