By: Aaron Gadson Trinity Malone Kenniyah Blackmon

(a) The Amazon River Origin: The Mantaro River in Southwestern Peru (b) The Congo Rainforest Origin: Cameroon, Gabon

(a) Temperature range: Less than 93°F(34 °C) to more than 68 °F(20 °C). Rainfall: more than 100 inches per year; average humidity is between 77 and 88%. (b) They can use sticks from off trees to make a shelter and leaves to hold it together and to protect them from rain. (c) The Amazon rainforest inhales massive amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, helping keep the globe’s carbon budget in balance. But as a new study shows, since 2000 drier conditions are causing a decrease in lung capacity.

(a) Food Source: (i) Black Pepper Allspice Cardamom Cashews (ii) Black-necked Crane Squirrel Monkey Male Rupicola Peruviana Blue and Gray Tanager White-faced Saki Monkey Gunther's Banded Tree Frog (b) Threats: Orange and Emerald Amazon Tree Boas Ocelots Vampire Bats They can use machetes from their starter kit to kill them.

(a) Logging interests cut down rain forest trees for timber used in flooring, furniture, and other items. Power plants and other industries cut and burn trees to generate electricity. The paper industry turns huge tracts of rain forest trees into pulp. The cattle industry uses slash-and-burn techniques to clear ranch land. Agricultural interests, particularly the soy industry, clear forests for cropland. Subsistence farmers slash-and-burn rain forest for firewood and to make room for crops and grazing lands. Mining operations clear forest to build roads and dig mines. Governments and industry clear-cut forests to make way for service and transit roads. Hydroelectric projects flood acres of rain forest. (b) Sustainable-logging regimes that selectively cull trees rather than clear-cut them would save millions of acres of rain forest every year. Campaigns that educate people about the destruction caused by rain forest timber and encourage purchasing of sustainable rain forest products could drive demand down enough to slow deforestation. Encouraging people who live near rain forests to harvest its bounty (nuts, fruits, medicines) rather than clear-cutting it for farmland would save million of acres. Government moratoriums on road building and large infrastructure projects in the rain forest would save many acres.

1. Machete 2. Jug of water 3. Mosquito Repellent 4. Medical Kit 5. Work Boots 6. Map 7. Seeds 8. Ziploc bags 9. Backup clothes 10. A blanket

Use a small amount of the area of the river. Don’t chop any trees down; only use branches off of trees. Don’t kill any endangered animals. Eat more plants and berries than meat. Use water wisely.