Climate of the Amazon Do Now 13/10/2019 Do Now Mind map what you know about the Amazon rainforets Key words Biome Convection rain Ecosystem Nutrient cycle Learning Objectives To know what the nutrient cycle is To understand the impact deforestation has on the soil in the rainforest To be able to explain how road building affects the Amazon’s ecosystem

Where is the Amazon?

The Amazon River

Climate graph – the Amazon Describe the Amazon’s annual pattern of rainfall and temperature.. [3 marks] Temperature (ºC) 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 Rainfall (mm) EXT – Why is the temperature and rainfall high in rainforests?

What could this graph be showing? What is missing from the graph? Climate Graph What could this graph be showing? What is missing from the graph?

Temperature (red line) 300 30 Temperature (red line) Rainfall (blue bars) 200 20 15 cm 100 10 J F M A M J J A S O N D

Rainfall (in mm) Temperature in °C Jan 240 27 Feb 230 26 Mar 265 Apr 215 May 170 Jun 85 Jul 75 Aug 40 28 Sep 50 Oct 100 29 Nov 140 Dec 190

Self Assessment Have you given your graph a title? Have you labelled your axis? Have you made a bar graph for rainfall? Have you made line graph for temperature? Have you made your rainfall bars using the y-axis on the left and your temperature line to the y-axis on the right? Have you described your graph using data as your evidence? Target:____________________

Describe the pattern of the climate of the Tropical Rainforest Describe the pattern of the climate of the Tropical Rainforest. You must include: Temperature When is hot? When is it cool? Rainfall When is it high? When is it dry? Have you included units? (Do you mean degrees Celsius or mm? From looking at my climate graph, I can see….. For example…..

Looking at your graph, try to work out which month fits each of the ten sentences best. Today is the hottest day in the year. Today "feels" like the coolest day of the year. The river flooded today. The weather has been almost the same for 3 months in a row. A canoe got stuck on a sandbank. A farmer was able to pick fruit today.

What have we learnt today? Learning Objectives To know what the nutrient cycle is To understand the impact deforestation has on the soil in the rainforest To be able to explain how road building affects the Amazon’s ecosystem What we will learn next… Deforestation