Introduction
Trees in the Amazon rainforest are getting fatter due to ___________ change
What is Climate?
Scientists who study the relationship between living things and the environment.
What are Ecologists?
When fuels are burned, it releases this gas into the air
What is Carbon Dioxide?
True or false: increases in tree size could become more pronounced in large trees
What is True?
The process by which plants soak up carbon dioxide when they make their own food
What is Photosynthesis?
The measurement scientists took of the tree trunk.
Rising temperatures and carbon dioxide levels could transform the Amazon ecosystem into a __________ in the next 100 years
In the future, trees having too much or too little heat or water can result from these weather events
What are Wildfires or Storms?
In the picture, this kind of tree has large roots in the Amazon rainforest of Peru.
What is Lupuna?
The average percent increase that the trees' circumference grew from 1971 to 2015.
What is 3.3%?
Trees make the most of the climate by locking away massive amounts of _______ and bulking up
What is Carbon?
This study confirms that _________ trees are hugely beneficial for absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
What is Large?
Beatriz Marimon says the study suggests that Amazonian trees are more resilient to ________ __________ than previously thought.
What is Global Warming?
True or false: NOT all sizes of trees have grown larger
What is False?
Which kind of trees, larger or smaller, are more resilient to changing conditions?
What are Larger?
What is: Trees absorb carbon dioxide, which helps to mitigate against climate change