changing Amazon

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Changing Amazon

• Amazing Amazon
  • Where is Amazon?
    • In South America
  • The area of Amazon
    • 5.5 million Km2 ---about half the size of China
  • Amazon River
    • run through the rainforest
    • The World's second longest river
  • Brazil
    • green---rainforest
  • Species
    • pink dolphins tiny tree frogs and scary piranhas
  • Chanel NO 5
    • rosewood from Amazon
• Amazon might become grassland
  • biggest rainforest
  • sick
    • climate change and human activities
    • usually recover by itself
      • but now take more time
      • too tired to get better
  • trees die and it turns into a hot dry grassland
• Why poor health
  • climate change
    • special climate pattern
      • EL Nino
        • long dry season
        • since 2005, three droughts
      • don't have enough water
        • catch fire easily
  • human activities
    • human acitivities
      • cut down trees
      • burn forest to make farms
      • clear forest to find minerals
    • result
      • 17% disappear
• If we lose rainforest, what will happen?
  • climate
    • rainforest---lungs of our planet
      • take carbon dioxide out fo the air
      • make oxygen
        • more than 20% of the planet's oxygen
  • people
    • 1 million lose home
  • animals and plants
    • over 3 million
    • nowhere else to live
    • disappear likely