Amazon

Question 1

How large is the Amazon?

Accepted Answer

6millionkm2

Question 2

What is the temperature range in the Amazon?

Accepted Answer

< 5°C

Question 3

What is the annual rainfall

Accepted Answer

≥ 2000mm

Question 4

What type of rainfall does the Amazon get?

Accepted Answer

convectional

Question 5

what percenatge does the amazon get a recycled rainfall as evapotranspirtaion

Accepted Answer

50%

Question 6

What is the Amazon's Net Primary Productivity (grams/m /year)?

Accepted Answer

2500

Question 7

What is the Amazon's biomass (tonnes/hectare)?

Accepted Answer

400

Question 8

How much of the Amazon's carbon is stored by trees (tonnes/carbon/year)?

Accepted Answer

180

Question 9

9. How much of the Amazon's carbon is stored underground (tonnes/carbon/year)

Accepted Answer

240

Question 10

How much carbon does the Amazon absorb every year?

Accepted Answer

2.4 billion

Question 11

How much deforestation happens in the Amazon (km*/year)?

Accepted Answer

17500

Question 12

What percentage of primary tainforest has been destroyed since 1970

Accepted Answer

20%

Question 13

Name a tributary of the Amazon?

Accepted Answer

maderia

Question 14

Converting rainforest to grassland Increases runoff by a factor of what?

Accepted Answer

27

Question 15

What percentage of all rainfall on grassland goes directly into rivers?

Accepted Answer

50%

Question 16

Deforestation in the Amazon leads to what percentage reduction in rainfall?

Accepted Answer

20%

Question 17

How much area (km*) of rainforest is Brazil committed to restoring by 2030.

Accepted Answer

120000

Question 18

What percentage of the Amazon is designated as a national park?

Accepted Answer

44

Question 19

Matura; largo cosmebos TNC, purchased how many tonnes of carbon credits from the Surul?

Accepted Answer

120000

Question 20

The Parica project In Rondonia alms to develop how many km2 of sustainable commercial timber plantation

Accepted Answer

100,000

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