Why are rainforests being destroyed in Brazil? By.Judy Chang & Sharon Jung Earth Science Period. 5.
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Why are rainforests being destroyed in Brazil?
By.Judy Chang & Sharon Jung
Earth Science
Period. 5
Outline
• Do you know anything about the rainforest?
• What are the effects?• Do you know what it looks like?• What can we do?• What have we taught you?• Where did we get our information?
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Rainforest facts
• Rainforest- a very dense, relatively warm wet forest.
• There are two types of rainforests: temperate and tropical.
• 20% of the world’s oxygen comes from the Amazon rainforest.
• Tropical rainforest deforestation results in the loss of 100 species per day.
Rainforests in Brazil
• The Amazon rainforest is in Brazil
• The biggest rainforest in the world
• Half of brazil is forested terrain
• The rainforests in Brazil are tropical rainforests.
What is happening to the rainforest?
• Being destroyed for profits
• Used for resources like Timber
• Land being used for raising cattle
• deforestation
Effects
• Percentage of oxygen from rainforest decreasing
• 70,000 people had to leave to build one dam.
• Deforestation threatens many species of tree frogs
• Release of carbon in the vegetation could accelerate global warming
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• Deforestation has made Brazil one of the top greenhouse gas producers
• Tribal homelands are destroyed
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Solution
• Planting trees• Decreasing the need for the amount of products that are harvested from the rainforests.
• Tell other people about the deforestation of the Amazon and what the effects are.
• Recycle.• Don’t cut as many trees
References
• Scott Lewis (1990), The rainforest Book, Living Planet press, Los Angeles, CA
• Rainforest facts available at Http://www.rain-tree.com/facts.htm (June 5, 2006)
• Al Gore (2006), An Inconvenient Truth, Rodale, Emmaus, PA
• Rainforest information available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Rainforest
• Mike Tidwell (1996), Amazon Stranger: A Rainforest Battles Big Oil, Lyons & Burford Publishers, New York NY