Tropical Rainforests

Question 1

What is the average rainfall in a tropical rainforest?

Answer 1

Around 2000mm per year

Question 2

What is the average temperature of a tropical rainforest?

Answer 2

20-28 degrees Celsius

Question 3

What are epiphytes?

Answer 3

Plants that grow on other plants

Question 4

What % of the world’s species are in tropical rainforests?

Answer 4

0.5

Question 5

How many species were classed as threatened in Brazil in 2014?

Answer 5

1182

Question 6

How many species were classed as threatened in Brazil in 2008?

Answer 6

628

Question 7

What is a symbotic relationship?

Answer 7

When two different species depend on each other for survival

Question 8

What are the 4 layers of a tropical rainforest? (in order, going up)

Answer 8

Shrub layer, under canopy, canopy and emergent layer

Question 9

What is the area of the Amazon rainforest?

Answer 9

Around 7 million km squared

Question 10

What % of Amazon deforestation comes from farming?

Answer 10

0.8

Question 11

What % of Amazon deforestation is a result of Cattle Ranching?

Answer 11

65-70%

Question 12

What % of Amazon deforestation is a result of commercial logging?

Answer 12

2-3%

Question 13

What % of Amazon deforestation is a result of subsistence farming?

Answer 13

20-25%

Question 14

How much CO2 does the Amazon store?

Answer 14

Over 100 billion tonnes

Question 15

What % of Brazil’s CO2 emissions come from deforestation?

Answer 15

0.75

Question 16

How many people do the Buenaventura mining company in Peru employ?

Answer 16

8000

Question 17

What was the rate of deforestation decrease in Brazil from 2004-2012?

Answer 17

0.8

Question 18

What is selective logging?

Answer 18

The cutting down of selected trees - most trees remain

Question 19

What is replanting?

Answer 19

When new trees are planted to replace the trees that have been cut down

Question 20

What is ecotourism?

Answer 20

A form of tourism that supports the conservation and sustainable development of ecologically unique areas

Question 21

What is an example of road building in the Amazon?

Answer 21

The Trans-Amazonian Highway

Question 22

How long is the Trans-Amazonian Highway?

Answer 22

4000km

Question 23

Roughly how many cows are there in Brazil?

Answer 23

Around 200 million

Question 24

How much of the Amazon has been deforested to be used for soy production?

Answer 24

250,000 km squared

Question 25

How much of the Amazon rainforest did the construction of the hydroelectric Balbina Dam flood?

Answer 25

2,400 km squared

Question 26

What is the annual average amount of land deforested per year from 2007 to 2017?

Answer 26

22 million hectacres

Question 27

What is the biggest source of income in Costa Rica?

Answer 27

Ecotourism

Question 28

What % of Costa Rica has been protected from development as a result of ecotourism?

Answer 28

0.28

Question 29

How much did Norway pay towards Brazil's Amazon conservation fund in 2018?

Answer 29

70 million dollars

Question 30

How much did the USA reduce Indonesia's national debt by in 2011 in exchange for conserving their rainforests?

Answer 30

29 million dollars

Question 31

What are lianas?

Answer 31

woody vines that start at ground level and use trees to climb up to the canopy

Question 32

What are fan palms?

Answer 32

large fan-shaped leaves

Question 33

How much are cattle exports worth per year to Brazil?

Answer 33

6.5 billion dollars

Question 34

What % of the world's carbon emissions does the Amazon absorb each year?

Answer 34

0.05

Question 35

Why does decomposition happen so fast in tropical rainforests?

Answer 35

Because of the humid, warm and moist climate

Question 36

What is an example of ecotousirm

Answer 36

Hotel Hix House in Puerto Rico

Question 37

How many medicinal drugs have been created from tropical rainforests?

Answer 37

7000

Question 38

What % of the Amazon has been deforested in the last 50 years?

Answer 38

0.17

Question 39

What is an example of a species that has become endangered in the Amazon as a result of deforestation?

Answer 39

The black spider monkey