1. 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

2. Where is the Amazon?

3. The Amazon River

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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:____________________

9. 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…..

10. 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.

11. 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