Amazon Rain Forest

AMAZON RAIN FOREST

DEFINE THE FOLLOWING

1. biodiversity

2. carbon-oxygen cycle

3. deforestation

4. sustainable

5. development

6. tropical rainforest

NOTES

· The largest rain forest in the world _______________________

· The rainforest covers ___ million square miles . More than ½ size of _________________

· Lies in mostly in _________________but also in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela

· Amazon River flowing through the rainforest

· Covers ____ of the Earth’s surface but home to ___ of the worlds living species

· Often called the __________________due to is carbon oxygen cycle

· ____ of the Earth’s oxygen

· -only place on earth certain species are found

· More than_____ of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed and is gone forever. The land is being cleared for cattle ranches, mining operations, logging, and subsistence agriculture.

· More than half of the world's rainforests have been destroyed by fire and logging in the last 50 years.

· Experts also estimate that____ species of plants, animals, and insects are lost every day.

· At the current rate of destruction, it is estimated that the last remaining rainforests could be destroyed in less than 40 years

NATIVE AMERICANS

How do they use its resources?

What do they want?