🌧️Amazon Extra

Question 1

What do temperature range from

Answer 1

28C

Question 2

What % of moisture remains in the ecosystems water cycle

Answer 2

50-80%

Question 3

What % of rainfall reaches the sea

Answer 3

30%

Question 4

How much of the rainforest has been lost in the last 50 years

Answer 4

17%

Question 5

What rate was the Amazon deforested at between 2000 and 2007

Answer 5

20,000km per year - larger than Greece

Question 6

What % of deforestation is due to cattle ranching

Answer 6

80%

Question 7

What % did the Brazilian Amazon population grow between 2000 and 2010

Answer 7

23%

Question 8

What river flooded ___km2 and displaced ___ locals

Answer 8

. Xingu
. 400km2
. 12,000 locals

Question 9

Location with daily rainfall delay and what is that delay and from when

Answer 9

. Rondonia has an 18 day delay since 1970s

Question 10

Deforestation could cause a __% decline in regional rainfall

Answer 10

20%

Question 11

How much carbon is immediately released when burnt for land clearance

Answer 11

30-60% of carbon

Question 12

How many tonnes of carbon does the Amazon store

Answer 12

80-120 billion

Question 13

How big is para rainforest reserve

Answer 13

15million hectares

Question 14

ACTO

Answer 14

Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation

Question 15

How many members are in ACTO

Answer 15

8

Question 16

What does ACTO want to promote

Answer 16

Sustainable development

Question 17

When did the TARAPOTO process begin

Answer 17

1995

Question 18

What is the TARAPOTO process

Answer 18

8 member countries identified have 12 criteria to help manage the forest sustainably at management nationally and globally

Question 19

Who has REDD been recognised by

Answer 19

Paris Agreement so legally binding

Question 20

What is REDD

Answer 20

Rich countries should pay poor countries not to cut down trees.

Question 21

How much was pledged to support REDD

Answer 21

$4.5 billion

Question 22

Local policy to stop climate change

Answer 22

Reforestation and afforestation

Question 23

The government have established a ____ to reduce _____

Answer 23

land registry to reduce land grabbing and illegal logging and cattle ranching

Question 24

Government has a sophisticated system of

Answer 24

monitoring deforestation using satellites and aeroplanes which can detect large-scale illegal clearances.

Question 25

What happens to process in cold conditions

Answer 25

Slow don and are less effective

Question 26

Fires in Indonesia have contributed over _____ tons of carbon dioxide

Answer 26

Billion

Question 27

For every ____ of forest consumed in a wildfire ___ CO2 is emitted

Answer 27

Hectare 170 tons

Question 28

Volcanic activity returns……

Answer 28

Carbon that has been trapped in the lithosphere for millions of years

Question 29

Currently, volcanoes emit between ____ and _____ of Co2 each year, by comparison, human activities release _______ as a result of burning fossil fuels

Answer 29

. 130-180 million tonnes . Humans - 30 billions tonnes

Question 30

What % of anthropogenic carbon release comes from the combustion of fossil fuels

Answer 30

90%

Question 31

Fossil fuels are extracted from rock that are ___ years old

Answer 31

70-100 million

Question 32

What % of carbon is absorbed by oceans and vegetation and who absorbs the rest

Answer 32

50% by oceans/vegetation and 50% by atmosphere

Question 33

Cattle in the US emit ____ of methane and in 2011 made up _____% of all agricultural emissions

Answer 33

5.5 million tonnes 39%

Question 34

When could farming be carbon neutral

Answer 34

2030

Question 35

In the 1990s, the Amazon was absorbing ____, by 2015 this had decreased to just _____

Answer 35

2bn tonnes, now only 1bn tonnes

Question 36

Since the 1960s, global concentrations of Co2 have increased significantly from _____ to _____

Answer 36

320ppm to 400ppm