Amazon Rain forest

Amazon Rain Forest

By:Ahaan

Shahaz

Tanish

Learning Objective

• SWBAT understand the use of rainforest.

• Will know what is Amazon rainforest.

What is Amazon rain forest?

• The majority of the forest is contained within Brazil, with 60% of the rainforest, followed by Peru with 13%, Colombia with 10%, and with minor amounts in Bolivia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. Four nations have "Amazonas" as the name of one of their first-level administrative regions, and France uses the name "Guiana Amazonian Park" for its rainforest protected area.

What is Amazon rainforest known for?

• Not only does the Amazon encompass the single largest remaining tropical rainforest in the world, it also houses at least 10% of the world's known biodiversity, including endemic and endangered flora and fauna, and its river accounts for 15-16% of the world's total river discharge into the oceans.

What is Rain forest?

• Rainforests are forests characterized by high and continuous rainfall, with annual rainfall in the case of tropical rainforests between 2.5 and 4.5 metres and definitions varying by region for temperate rainforests.

How long is Amazon rainforest?

• The Amazon Rainforest stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the tree line of the Andes in the west. The forest widens from a 200-mile (320-km) front along the Atlantic to a belt 1,200 miles (1,900 km) wide at the Andean foothills. Brazil holds approximately 60 percent of the Amazon within its borders.

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Multiple Choice

The Amazon Rainforest stretches from the ________ in the east to the _____ _______ ______

• Atlantic ocean east to tree line of the Andes in the west.

• Pacific ocean north to tree line of the Andes in the south`.

Multiple Choice

Rainforests are forests characterized by ____ and ______ rainfall

• High and continuous

• low and breaking

By:

Ahaan

Tanish

Shahaz