1. • Amazon Rainforest

3. • Amazon Rainforest Facts:
- Largest rainforest in the world (1.4 billion sq. miles)
- Provides 20% of earth’s oxygen

4. • 79 degrees average temperature
• 80 inches average yearly rainfall

5. • Trees grow to over 200 ft.
Hotel Monaco (SLC) 214 ft.Walker Center (SLC)
220 ft.

6. - 10 million species of plants, animals and insects
- 90% of plants/trees have not yet been studied for science.

8. • Cumulus clouds over the Amazon
Rainforest/Amazon River Delta

9. • Layers of the rainforest
Draw on board and have students draw!!!

10. The rainforest canopy

11. Bridges amidst the canopy

16. Toucan – the iconic symbol of the Amazon

17. Scarlet Macaw
Poison Dart Frogs
Brown Capuchin
Monkey
Jararaca Pit Viper
Black Jaguar
Cotton-top
Tamarin
Monkey
Capybara -
largest rodent
in the world

18. Pit Viper

19. Anaconda

20. Jaguar

22. Red-eyed Tree Frog

23. • Deforestation (vocab.) of the Amazon Rainforest
(human modification)
good or bad?

29. • How much has been destroyed?

30. • About 20%
Just think of all of the untapped resources/treasures (esp.
medicines) that have already been lost/destroyed.

31. • The burning/cutting has slowed down quite a bit lately,
however, it is still going on.

32. • Why is the rainforest being cleared/destroyed?

33. • The rainforests are cleared for:
1. Farming
2. Ranching
3. Logging.
btw - the land/soil is not very arable.

34. • Slash-and-burn agriculture (vocab.) – farming technique in which
forest or other vegetation is cleared and burned to put nutrients (ashes) into the soil.

38. Satellite image of Amazon Rainforest burning

41. • Destruction vs. Sustainability (maintain)
- Which pays better?

42. • Logging - $1,290 per acre (one-time profit)
• Cattle pasture - $61 per acre per year

43. • Sustainability!!!
Sustainable forest products (food, medicine, rubber) - $2,762 per acre per year

45. • Chico Mendes (Brazil)
- “Defender of the Rainforest”
- Informal education (self-taught)
- Rubber tapper
- Environmentalist & union leader
- Murdered/assassinated in 1988 @ age 44
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