Amazon Rainforest

Created by Alyssa HartleibMeghan SteffeyAustin Oswald

Sam ScicchitanoOlivia Velgara

Stephanie Vasquez

The Amazon Rainforest Climate

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The Amazon Rainforest Climate

• 20% of earths oxygen is produced from the Amazon!• Accumulates about 9 feet of rain every year!• The average Temp. of the Amazon is 79 F ��

• Because of all the rain, trees have buttress roots to hold it up in the soft soil.

Bromeliads Flower• The bromeliads flower is shape as a bowl.

• Red, green and sometime purple

• This flower can hold several gallons of water.

• They will then eventually mature and complete their blooming cycle in one to several years, depending upon the variety and growing conditions very important.

Foxglove FlowerDescription: • It is 6 to 64 feet tall • Color: White, ivory, peach, pink, deep rose,

purple • When this plant dies it becomes poisonous facts: • This plant is used to treat heart problems

Bengal Bamboo• Description: • 40-80 feet tall • Dark green straight, stalked stems.• Leaves are long and green• Bamboo is large type of grass• 2-3 months before fully grown• 25-40 year life span.• Facts: used for paper, furniture, making

baskets, and reinforcing concrete.

Bougainvillea Flower • Description: • Can reach over 30 feet tall• They can either be tree or vines• Like little hearts with drip tips at the

end• Can be Red ,Pink , Orange, White

or, Yellow• Has thorns • facts: People used this as a house

plant.

Wax Flower • Wax flower represents miniature flowers

and leaves resembling pine needles borne on slender, woody stems.

• Wax flower is very odorous having strong citrus lemon smell when being crushed.

• Its shaped as a star• This can be white, pink

• This nice plant makes a good filler flower in various designs and floral arrangements.

Jaguar-(pantera onca)• Size – 5.5-8ft. Weigh 124-211 pounds. Four legged animal, gold fur with

black spots. Very fast.• Habitat – rainforests, deserts, and grasslands• Food habits – predator. Variety of animals that include turtles, tapirs, and

deer.• Reproduction – females have approximately 100 day pregnancy period

and can give birth to 2,3, or 4 cubs.• Economic importance – ranchers kill them because they pray on live stock.• Human impact – threatened with extinction.• Interesting fact – great swimmer.

Spider monkey-(genus:ateles)

• Size – 15-20 inches not including the tail. Tails are approximately 2-3 feet, and weigh up to 14 pounds. They have 2 arms 2 legs; gray, small with big tails.

• Habitat – live high in the canopy of the rainforest and seldom venture to the rainforest floor.

• Food habits – eats fruits, leaves, and nuts and occasionally insects.

• Reproduction – pregnancy period 7 ½ months. Usually one infant.

• Economic importance – logging and deforestation continues to shrink the space that the spider monkeys call home.

• Human impact – locals hunt them for food.• Interesting fact – likes to hang upside down using only its

tail to hold on to branches.

Poison dart frog-(family:dendrobatidae• Size – grow 1-7 center meters in length depending what species.

Black, green or blue. Small.• Habitat – live near marshes, stream, and rivers.• Food habits – termites, crickets, flies, and ants.• Reproduction – lay a group of eggs in water which take about 12

days to hatch.• Human impact – logging and farming caused no homes for the

frogs.• Interesting fact - born and raised in captivity poison frogs do not

produce the skin toxins they retain.

Giant water otter-(oteronura brasiliensis)

• Size – 4.9-5.6 feet in length. Weighs from 57-100 pounds. Chocolate brown but can be reddish.

• Habitat – fresh water river and streams• Food habits – predator mainly feeds on fish, crabs, and snakes.• Reproduction - pregnancy period 65-70 days giving birth to its 1-5

pups with an average of 2.• Economic importance – hunted for its fur to make clothing.• Human impact – population decreased because of getting hunted

for its fur.• Interesting fact – when wet, the otter appears nearly black

Anaconda-(Genus:eunectes)

• Size – grow over 37 feet in length. Really long.• Habitat – near the water and swim in the streams and rivers of

South Africa.• Food habits – predator, hunt by submerging all but its nostrils in

the water and wait for its pray. Their diet consists of rodents, fish, birds, turtles, and larger mammals if the snake is big enough.

• Reproduction – bear live young snakes.• Human impact – threatened by deforestation of habitat and

threatened for skin.• Interesting fact – slow acting digestive system, and can take

several weeks or longer to digest its meals.

Humans effecting the environment • Humans effect the environment by deforestation. • People cut down the tees to make good jobs for people and

because wood makes a lot of money in the lumbering industry• Humans destroy the animal habitats and ruin there food

supply• Eventually there will be no trees left in the rain forest and all

the animals will die because there habitats were destroyed.• If the animals go extinct then the rain forest will be overgrown

because the animals will not eat the fruit leaves and plants.

Deforestation in the Amazon

Food web

Jaguar Anaconda

Spider monkey poison dart frog giant water otter

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Resources

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