1How large is the Amazon?
6millionkm2
2What is the temperature range in the Amazon?
< 5°C
3 What is the annual rainfall
≥ 2000mm
4What type of rainfall does the Amazon get?
convectional
5what percenatge does the amazon get a recycled rainfall as evapotranspirtaion
50%
6What is the Amazon's Net Primary Productivity (grams/m /year)?
2500
7What is the Amazon's biomass (tonnes/hectare)?
400
8 How much of the Amazon's carbon is stored by trees (tonnes/carbon/year)?
180
99. How much of the Amazon's carbon is stored underground (tonnes/carbon/year)
240
10 How much carbon does the Amazon absorb every year?
2.4 billion
11How much deforestation happens in the Amazon (km*/year)?
17500
12What percentage of primary tainforest has been destroyed since 1970
20%
13Name a tributary of the Amazon?
maderia
14Converting rainforest to grassland Increases runoff by a factor of what?
27
15What percentage of all rainfall on grassland goes directly into rivers?
50%
16Deforestation in the Amazon leads to what percentage reduction in rainfall?
20%
17How much area (km*) of rainforest is Brazil committed to restoring by 2030.
120000
18What percentage of the Amazon is designated as a national park?
44
19Matura; largo cosmebos TNC, purchased how many tonnes of carbon credits from the Surul?
120000
20The Parica project In Rondonia alms to develop how many km2 of sustainable commercial timber plantation
100,000