1. Objective: TSW describe the biodiversity of the Amazon River Basin and analyze the effects of deforestation

2. What is a geographic basin?
Objective: TSW describe the biodiversity of the Amazon River Basin and analyze the effects of deforestation
Focus: What is a Basin?
A Basin is a Bowl!
What is a geographic basin?
A geographic basin is an area of low land surrounded by higher land

4. Amazon Basin

5. Amazon Basin

6. Amazon Basin Facts
Amazon River Basin covers approximately 2,700,000 Sq. miles (USA=3,400,000)
The basin in contained by the Guyana Highlands to the north Central Brazilian Plateau to the south and the Andes Mountains to the west
The Amazon Basin run about 4000 miles east to west and 2000 miles north to south

7. Amazon Basin

8. Amazon Basin

9. Amazon Basin

10. Rio Negro

11. Amazon River runs through the Amazon Basin.

12. Facts about the Amazon River
Amazon is the 2nd longest river in the world. 4,195 miles
Average depth 120 feet; exceeds 300 feet in places
Average width 25 miles during rainy season; width ranges from 1 to 35 miles
Mouth of river is 207 miles wide
River discharges 8 trillion gallons of water a day into the Atlantic

13. 120 Feet

14. 25 Miles

15. Mouth of the Amazon

16. Mouth of the Amazon

17. Marajó Island

18. Marajó Island is the same size as Denmark!!!

19. What is this?

20. Amazon River and Rain Forest

21. Amazon Rain Forest

22. Rain Forest Facts
Amazon Rainforest covers about 1.2 billion acres. Equals 8th biggest country in the world
The Amazon Rainforest has been described as the "Lungs of our Planet" because it provides more than 20 percent of the world oxygen.
Scientists have just begun to investigate and study the biodiversity of the rainforest

23. Biodiversity
Biodiversity is the amount and variety of plants and animals in a certain place
The Amazon rainforest is home to between 5 and 30 million different species of plants and animals.
About half of all life on earth is found in the Amazon Rainforest!
Only 1% of the species have been studied

24. 1,300 different species of birds live in the rainforest 20% of all birds on earth live in the rainforest

25. Mammals
430 Species of mammals have been discovered

26. Reptiles and Amphibians
Over 700 Species of reptiles and amphibians live in the Amazon

27. Fish Over 500 species of fish are found in one river in the Amazon
There are only 200 species of fish in all of Europe

28. Candiru

29. People of the Amazon
Around 300,000 native people live in the rainforest
188 languages are spoken

30. Why do people cut down the forest??

31. Why do people cut down the forest??
Wood for logging
Wood for fuel and paper
Land for cattle
Land for farming
Land for homes
Deforestation is the cutting down and clearing the trees in the rainforest
About 8,000 square miles are destroyed each year
Since 1970 the amount of forest destroyed is equal to the size of France

32. France

33. Deforestation
The cutting down and clearing the trees in the rainforest

34. Why should we save the rainforest??
Produces 20% of the worlds oxygen
Currently 121 drugs are produced from plants in the rainforest
Each year 50,000 species of plants and animals are destroyed
Less than 1% of the plants in the rainforest have been tested by drug companies

35. Assignment Write a three paragraph essay Describe the rainforest
Objective: TSW describe the biodiversity of the Amazon River Basin and analyze the effects of deforestation
Assignment
Write a three paragraph essay
(A paragraph is 5 sentences)
Describe the rainforest
What is deforestation and why do people do it?
Why should we save the rainforest?