The Amazon Jungle

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The Amazon Jungle

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adaptations

trophic networks

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different ecosystems

Climate

vegetation

wildlife

matter and energy

relations

factors

introduction

Index

Pablo García de Cortázar

Rodrigo Morán

Julio Muñoz Valero

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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.

Introduction

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.

Factors of the ecosystem

Matter and energy

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

Climate

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,...

Vegetation

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...

Wildlife

Pink dolphin

Lazy

Giraffe

Saiga Antelope

Hedgehog

Koala

II

Moose

Angel of the sea

Giant Anteater

III

Lynx

Leopard

Peacock

IV

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.

Adaptations of animals

Terceary consumers: are carnivorous, that eat other carnivores.

Secondary consumers: are carnivors that eat herbivores.

Primary consumers: are herviborous, they eat producers.

Producers: produce their own food.

Wolves

Foxes

Snakes

Rabits

Bees

Grasshoppers

Flowers

Algae

Trees

Grass

Trophic networks

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

Relations between animals

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 (I)

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.

Different ecosystems (II)