WELCOME TO OUR JUNGLE SAFARI!What a great week... our safari through the jungle of this school year has gone well so far with no wild animals or volcano's erupting to slow our pace! It’s great to have all of you back and exciting to see so many 6th graders, wow are there a lot of them!
This week we will be working on how to use the blog.... so the questions we use will be practice.. NOT for a grade.... I want you to be successful so I figure we will need to work together in class to learn how to use the blog.
Things to remember:
Be ready for class... have your Math spiral, something to write with... your calculator... and be ready for class to start... don’t wait for class to start - be ready!
Keep up with your work.. If you fall behind it’s much more difficult to catch up!
Keep your papers from all your classes.. You never know when you want to check a grade!
Do your BEST... why settle for less when it takes very little effort to do MORE and BE MORE!
The site, unique-southamerica-travel-experience.com states:
The Amazon rainforest, world's largest remaining natural resource, represents 54% of the total rainforests left on Earth.
It covers an area of 2,5 million square miles, embracing nine South America countries: Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and the Guianas - Guyana, French Guiana and Suriname, or two thirds of the South America continent.
The Amazon Rainforest is the largest rainforest in the world. According to the Mongabay website, the Amazon covers an area of approximately 3,179,715 square miles. It is hard to imagine something so big. To put that into perspective, the entire land area of the United States is 3,794,083 square miles, not much larger than the Amazon Rainforest.
Its live force is the Amazon river, born in the Andean mountains of Peru, flows for more than 4,000 miles to discharge its waters in the Atlantic ocean near Belem, Brazil. Along the way, it is fed by about 1,100 tributaries.
The Amazon rainforest gets its name from the Amazon River, the life force of the rainforest. The Amazon River begins in the Peruvian Andes, and winds its way east over the northern half of South America. It meets the Atlantic Ocean at Belem, Brazil. The main river is about 4,080 miles long. Its drainage basin covers 2,722,000 million square miles, and lies in the countries of Brazil, Columbia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and the three Guyanas. Sixteen percent of all the world's river water flows through the Amazon delta. Twenty eight billion gallons of water flow into the Atlantic every minute, diluting the salinity of the ocean for more than 100 miles offshore. The Amazon rainforest watershed is home to the world's highest level of biodiversity.
More than 20% of Earth's oxygen is produced in this area, thus the name "Lungs of the Planet"
With 2,5 million square miles, the Amazon rainforest represents 54% of the total rainforests left of the planetAmazon rainforest birds account for for at least one third of the world's bird species, being toucan the most popular icon
More than half of the world's estimated ten million species of plants, animals and insects live in the tropical forest.
70% of plants found to have anticancer properties are found only in the rainforest
The number of edible fruits found in the rainforest is estimated at 3,000. Amazon natives consume more than 1,500, but only 200 are cultivated for use today
An estimated 90% of Amazon rainforest plants used by Amazon natives have not been studied by modern science
In 1500 there were an estimated 6 to 9 million Amazon natives. By 1900 the number has gone down to one million left in Brazil. Today, the number is believed to be of around 250,000 Amazon natives, comprising 215 ethnic groups with 170 different languages.
There may also be fifty or so Amazon tribes living in the depths of the Amazon rainforest that have never had contact with the outside world
An estimated number of 2,700 million acres of the rainforest are burned each year.
1) If 70% of the anticancer plants are found in the Amazon, then what percent is found outside of the Amazon Rainforest?
2) If the Amazon Forest is estimated to be 4,080 miles large... and if you could walk 25 miles a day... how many days would it take to walk the whole Amazon?
3) What do you think about the Amazon and what is happening to the forests after watching the videos? Is there any think you can do to help the forest or even the woods around Newberg?
Our first game is October 27..... can’t wait to see the guys back at it! Hold on for more exciting news to come!
Even though life can seem to be wild and crazy... or that your lost in a jungle.. Keep pressing forward!
As always, you are amazing, incredible people with the whole world waiting to be changed by YOU!
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