Geography

Summer 1

This term, the children will be looking at The Rainforest.

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Below are some amazing footage.

Travel Explore GIF by Skyrail Rainforest Cableway

Pbs Nature Monkey GIF by Nature on PBS

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brazil wildfire deforestation forest fire amazon rainforest GIF See the source image

water tree GIF by Living Stills

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The children have been looking at identifying the equator, the tropics and the N & S Hemisphere.

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They have also looked at where is Brazil and what does the country have similarities to England.

Brazil holds approximately 60 % of the Amazon basin within its borders, and some 1,583,000 square miles (4,100,000 square km) of this was covered by forests in 1970.

The Amazon is the most biodiverse terrestrial place on the planet. This amazing rainforest is home to more species of birds, plants and mammals than anywhere else in the world. Around 30% of the world's species, and 10% of the world's biodiversity, can be found there

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^{The Physical Characteristics of Amazon Rainforests}

Climate. The Amazon rainforest's tropical climate is humid and provides an average of 80 inches of annual rainfall, with half of the precipitation resulting from the forest's own evaporation.
Trees. The majority of plants in the Amazon rainforest are trees. ...
Plants. Plants that grow in the Amazon rainforest include herbaceous, perennials and bulbous flowering plants, shrubs, vines, ferns and lilies.
Animals. Insects including butterflies, mosquitoes, ants and camouflaged stick insects make up the largest group of animals that live in the Amazon rainforest.

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Tropical deforestation increased by 62% over the last two decades.