2. Important
information• It has a surface of 2.5 millions of miles square covering
nine countrys of south America.
• More than 20% of the oxygen of the world is made in
this region.
• The diversity of birds in the amazon jungle form the
1/3 of all the species in the world.
• More than 5 millions species of insects, plants, and
animals are here.
• There are approximately 50 tribes who live in the heart
of the jungle.
• Nowadays 108.000 millions areas per year are
destroyed.
3. Biotope
Geographic space: the amazon jungle
is located in the north of south
America, along the entire route of
the amazon river.
The weather in the amazon jungle is tropical:
hot and wet all year. The average temperature
is 27ºC. There isn’t difference between winter
and summer. But for the night is more cold.
The only thing more annoying is the excessive
humidity in the air. There are thunderstorms
all year very dangerous.
4. The land in the amazon jungle
is poor in nutrients.
And it has a low potential of
retention.
There is a river that gives the
name to the jungle (the
amazon river). It is located in
the middle of the jungle. It is the
home of quite species. The river
has a lot of meanders. It has a lenght of
7062km. It is the longgest and widdest
river in the world.
5. Biocoenosis
The amazon jungle is
the larger group of
animals and plants
maybe in the world.
Here there are all
kinds of animals:
big, small, noisy, silent,
lethal and peaceable:
insects, arachnids, rept
iles, amphibian, birds
and mammals. And
more than 80.000
species of plants and
trees. Some examples
of animals:
Tamarino león dorado
Nutria gigante
Tucán
Jaguar
Ángel del mar
Guacamayo azul
Anaconda
Oso perezoso
Delfín rosado
6. Interactions
BIOTOPE
• There isn’t difference
between winter and
summer.
• During all year there is
the same
temperature, more or
less 27ºC .
• The precipitations are
constant but with a
slight difference
throughout the year.
• The storms are frequent
and quite dangerous.
• The humidity is high.
But all this are in balance.
BIOTOPE-BIOCOENOSIS
• All species, animals as
much as plants are
adapted to this climate.
• All the species are
adapted to the
environment that is so
extreme.
• There are all kinds of
animals and plants to all
types of environment.
And this jungle has a lot
of them like: aqueous,
terrestrial and aerial.
BIOCOENOSIS
• There are so many
species, it is good to the
survival of the majority
of them. Because there
are more predators, but
also more preys.
• Intraspecific connection:
relationships between
members of the same
specie.
• Interspecific
connection:
relationships between
different species.
7. “Main” species of
each trophic level
PRODUCERS CONSUMERS DECOMPOSERS
Victoria del
amazonas
Anaconda
PirañaAcacia
Trametes sp
Coprinellus disseminatus
10. History
The amazon jungle was formed during the “Eoceno” era after the
temperatures were down in all the world, doing that the atlantic ocean
grew up. The amazon jungle have at least 55 millions years old. After of
the extinction of dinosaurs, the climate was more wet and the jungle grew
up. The last glacial was threat for the amazonia, but it survived. Important
changes were introduced to the jungle during this last glacial, that went
on 21000 years. The size of the jungle and the amount of rain were
reduced. There are people who say the jungle was a very little and
isolated region, with wet vegetation separated by pastures. The amazon
jungle was discovered by the spaniard explorer called Francisco de
Orellana who was the first european to was across the amazon river
1542. He thought that the jungle was the greek mythology when he was
attacked by a tribe leadded by women (“las amazonas”).
11. Main human impacts
• Deforestation.
• Endangered animals.
• Reduction of land.
• Deterioration of the habitat.
• Loss of the diversity.
• Social impacts (with the tribes).
• Loss of the water’s cycle.
