What is the Southern Hemisphere?
The Southern Hemisphere is located below the Equator.
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This is how many languages are spoken by tribes in the Amazon.
What is 170?
There are over 215 authentic tribes speaking over 170 different languages now that's crazy! Some tribes can even make use of over 2000 of the 3000 fruits found in the Amazon Rainforest.
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The Macaw, Oropendolas, Toucan, Hoatzin, Amazon Kingfisher are examples.
What are some birds of the Amazon?
There are over 1300 species of birds that live in the Amazon. Most of them live in the dense undercover of the forest.
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True or False, yearly the Amazon has over 5 feet of rain.
What is True?
The Amazon has a yearly precipitation amount over my height. It has 6 ft and 7 inches of rain on average per year!!!!
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This is the most dangerous threat to the Amazon.
What is Deforestation?
Deforestation is when people cut down trees on a massive scale and it has a major impact on the plants and animals because they no longer have anywhere to live!!! Forest covers 30% of the world but now are disappearing due to deforestation.
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When we have winter here the Amazon has this season.
What is Summer?
Since we are located in the Northern Hemisphere our seasons are opposite to the Southern Hemisphere. For example our spring happens during their Fall.
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Over 20 million people alone live in this Amazon Rainforest country.
What is Brasil?
It is the largest and most populated country of hte Amazon Rainforest.
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This is the largest cat in the Amazon
What is the Jaguar?
This beautiful creature often gets confused with another cat in the Amazon named the Ocelot. The Amazon is home to thousands of different animals.
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This mammal is one of the most numerous species in the Amazon.
What is the Gorilla?
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This is an illegal hunting.
What is Poaching?
Poaching is actually ILLEGAL.But Many people do it anyway to get a specific animal when they don't realize that they are killing many other animals that is why poaching became illegal.
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The Amazon Rainforest stretches through this many countries.
What is nine?
These countries are: Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Venezuela, Columbia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Ecuador.
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Once upon a time there were almost 10 million of these people in the Amazon Rainforest.
What are indigenous people?
With the Western and European explorers invading the land many years ago today there are less than 250 000 indigenous people of the Amazon Rainforest.
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There are over 40000 species of these in the Amazon Rainforest.
What are plants?
The Amazon has the most species of plants in the world. They range from the beautiful Orchids, to the crazy vines, to the wild Monkey brush and the leafy Murumuru. This is why the Amazon provides the world's amount of Oxygen which we need to survive.
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The rare Lear's Macaw parrot can be poached and sold for this amount of money.
What is $60000?!!!!!!!!
The rare Lear's Macaw parrot can be $60000 because it is so rare often rarer species can be sold for a larger amount of money.
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Many animals lose this because of deforestation.
What is habitats?
Many habitats are getting lost because of all the trees that get cut down. Therefore the animals have nowhere to live and no food to fed on.
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The Amazon has an average temperature of
a) 10 degrees Celsius
b) 150 degrees Celsius
c) -5 degrees Celsius
d) 27 degrees Celsius
What is d) 27 degrees Celsius?
It is a very hot place!
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True or False:the indigenous people know more than us about modern day technology.
What is False?
The indigenous people are very intelligent but know very little about modern day technology.
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This is one of the most dangerous animals that lives in the Amazon Rainforest.
What is the Anaconda?
Its size and and the fact that it has no enemies makes it one of the most deadliest animals of the Amazon. It can eat monkeys, cats, crocodiles, other snakes....ANYTHING!
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This is around the amount of fruits in the Amazon Rainforest.
What is 3000?
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True or False: Smuggling is when you shoot an animal.
What is false?
Smuggling is actually when you capture an animal live. Most of the time these poor animals get sold to private land.
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6437 miles or 10360 kilometres long.
What is the length of the Amazon River?
It is the LONGEST river in the world, even longer than the Nile River of Africa.
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This is the estimated amount of tribes that live so deep in the jungle that they have never made any contact with the outside world.
What is 50?
Many people have estimated that there are 50 that have no clue we even exist!
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True or False: The Amazon has 20% of the animals that are on the planet.
What is TRUE?!
The Amazon is the LARGEST forest in the world. It is the size of Antarctica!!
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This is how much land is getting cleared per second.
What is 1.5 acres?
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This is when people through waste into nature.
What is pollution?
Pollution is when people through waste into rivers or just land. First of all it affects our air which we survive on . Second of all it kills not only water creatures but land creatures because they drink the water and third of all it pollutes our drinking water.