Amazon Presentation
Transcript: Amazon Rainforest 1. What started the fire? To make a fire, you need to have a lighter or cigarette which can hit dry leaves. If the sunlight gets directly on the leaves for a long period of time, it can catch on the leaves, which can spread to other leaves. This can happen when there is a drought. If the people who live there use a small fire to clear out land, it can spread if they don’t put it all the way out. This is more likely because the rainforest is usually wet, and so it is not likely that it would catch on fire without help. Though there is a theory that there are non-governmental organizations that are mad at the president and lit the fire to make him look bad for not donating enough money to the organizations that help the rainforest. The president of Brazil removed many laws that helped protect these areas causing the fire to be easily created, as an example, he agreed to a law that UN protects the amazon, meaning where they weren't allowed to burn and cut down trees, is now allowed. Why are they not doing anything about it? 2. The president is not doing anything about it because he thinks that non-governmental organizations made the fire to draw attention to the government to Brazil Because of that, he is helping but not directly with the Amazon organizations. 3. When will the fire stop? There is no date exactly when the fire will stop, especially because it is currently spring/summer in Brazil which means its even drier weather. Who are the people that are helping? 4. Tim Cock is the first tech CEO to respond with an offer to help. Tim tweeted that Apple would be donating to help, but he didn't say an exact amount. “It’s devastating to see the fires and destruction ravaging the Amazon rainforest, one of the world’s most important ecosystems. Apple will be donating to help preserve its biodiversity and restore Amazon’s indispensable forest across Latin America.” — Tim Cook (@tim_cook) August 26, 2019 What is the Amazon rainforest? And what is happening there? 5. The amazon is a rainforest in Brazil filled with many animals and rivers including the second biggest in the world which is the Amazon river. The Amazon has been on fire for the past month and Brazil has declared a state of emergency. Currently, there are more than 2,500 active fires in the rainforest, the British Broadcasting Corporation said the smoke is visible from space, the European Union Earth Observation satellites captured images of significant amounts of smoke over Amazonas, Rondonia and other areas. Which animals still live in the Amazon? 6. The rainforest is still filled with life. Millions of species of plants and animals live in the rainforest. Indigenous people have lived in rainforests for many thousands of years. The Amazon Rainforest is home to 427 mammal species, 1,300 bird species, 378 species of reptiles, and more than 400 species of amphibians. Some of the animals include jaguars, sloths, pink river dolphins, macaws, anacondas, glass frogs, and poison dart frogs. How and will the fires affect us? 7. Even though everyone says the Amazon produces 20% of the world’s oxygen, it's not clear where this rumor started because the actual percentage would be no more than 6%, according to climate researchers. The crops in the timberland regions would also produce oxygen meaning losing all the Amazon would affect us but very little. The effect on us would be by generating fewer rainclouds which moves water to some of the world’s most productive farmlands, from Argentina to Texas, the Amazon also helps “absorb” global warming which means the climate change would be even bigger if we lost it. Adding on the Amazon River is responsible for almost one-fifth of the sweet water carried to the world's oceans. works cited 8. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jSIGyCwn7qni18hECzhneakkc5kJKi8ya73GeKWugxY/edit
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