The Amazon Jungle

The Amazon Jungle

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Index

wildlife

map

introduction

adaptations

trophic networks

factors

relations

matter and energy

Climate

different ecosystems

vegetation

Thank you

Thank you!

Julio Muñoz Valero

Rodrigo Morán

Pablo García de Cortázar

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Introduction

An ecosystem, is a section of the biosphere formed by living things, the physical environment that surrounds them, and their relationships. There are two main components of an ecosystem: the biotipe and the community or biocoenosis.

Factors of the ecosystem

Abiotic factors: characteristics of the environment that determine the existence of living things. They can be of different kinds: Climatic: temperature, precipitation and humidity. Physical: light and pressure. Chemical: amounts of oxygen. Biotic factors: these are the living things, found in an ecosystem, that interact with other living things and the environment.

Matter and energy

Climate

The Amazon Jungle, has got an equatorial humid climate. Average temperature: 26ºC. Rain: 2500 l - 3500 l every year.

Vegetation

The Amazon Jungle, is the richest habitat on the planet: 20% of plants 5.000 species Medicinal plants: Nightshade, Elder, Holy Grass,... Toxic plants: Mullein, Curare,... Trees: Cumaceba, Cedar, Mahogany,... Plants that serve as dye: Jagua, Achiote,...

Wildlife

The Amazon Jungle, is the richest habitat on the planet: 20% of birds 10% of mammals Undefined insects 2.000 fish More species. And now, a little game...

Pink dolphin

Giraffe

Lazy

II

Koala

Hedgehog

Saiga Antelope

III

Giant Anteater

Angel of the sea

Moose

IV

Peacock

Leopard

Lynx

Adaptations of animals

Monkeys and apes: They have adapted skillfully to tropical rainforests. Birds: beaks can be important sources of heat lose, so birds that live in tropical areas can afford to have a larger beak than if they were living in colder climates. Predators: The jaguar, with its camouflage, has developed the ability to swim well in the humid jungle. Adaptations of this type allow the jaguar to search for food, not only on land, also in the mighty rivers and streams of the Amazon.

Trophic networks

Terceary consumers: are carnivorous, that eat other carnivores.

Wolves

Snakes

Secondary consumers: are carnivors that eat herbivores.

Foxes

Rabits

Bees

Primary consumers: are herviborous, they eat producers.

Grasshoppers

Algae

Flowers

Producers: produce their own food.

Grass

Trees

Relations between animals

Intraspecific relationships (same species).-Intraspecific competition / Cooperation. Interspecific relationships (different species).-Interspecific competition / Predation / Parasitism.-Mutualism / Symbiosis.-Commensalism / Inquilism.

Different ecosystems (I)

Forest ecosystems: density of trees and vegetation in general. It can be divided into jungle, dry forest, temperate forest and taiga. Desert ecosystems: very low frequency of rains. Also, the wildlife and the vegetation, are not very varied. Mountainous ecosystems: climatic and atmospheric conditions are very characterisic in these areas.

Different ecosystems (II)

Marine ecosystem: largest ecosystem, 70%. Freshwater ecosystems: they are ecosystems very different from seas and oceans. Also, there are subtypes: lentic and lotics systems and wetlands. Artificial ecosystems: the action of the humans, have created, radically, different spaces that do not exist until one millennium ago.