University of Leeds. "Loss of tropical forests reduces rain." ScienceDaily, 5 Sep. 2012. Web. 27 Sep. 2012.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120905135008.htm
Summary: A team of researchers from the University of Leeds and the NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology discovered that in areas where air passes over tropical forests, there is noticeably more rainfall. By combining the data they found from the amount of rain fall over tropical forest areas, and by making estimations they suspect that due to the decreasing of rain forest the amount of rain that would generally fall over the Amazon Basin will also decrease by at least 1/5 by 2050. Scientists were debating whether or not the forest was affecting rainfall over time, and they realized that the vegetation does in fact add moisture to the air.
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| Picture shows fog over top of the rain forest. |
Opinion/Reflection: I think that the trees are getting cut down is a big deal but also the fact that it is affecting other parts of Earth's natural cycles. If humans were not cutting trees down in the first place there wouldn't be a problem with the rainfall. If humans weren't here the rainfall to rain forest ratio wouldn't be affected the way they are. I understand that that also doesn't change the fact that this is a current problem. Somehow we have to protect the rain forest before the amount of rainfall is majorly affected.
Questions:
1. How do you think they can try to help save the rain forest before it creates a major impact on the amount of rainfall?
2. How do you think that a change in rainfall would affect nearby civilization?
3. How do you think that a change in rainfall would affect the plants or animals?
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/habitats/rainforest-profile/
ReplyDeleteThis link also talks about rainforest. But it talks about how some rainforest are recieving a little bit of a drought.
i think that we should just not cut down as many trees as we should. Yeah we need the trees but we can help it by trying to cut down less trees. I n fact, we just should not cut down trees at all. So that way we can have normal rainfall and more oxygen in the air.
ReplyDeleteMy Questions:
1.Should we still cut down more trees?
2.How can you help prevent trees from being cut down?
3.how would you be able to help change the rainfall ratio back to normal
1. How do you think they can try to help save the rain forest before it creates a major impact on the amount of rainfall?
ReplyDeleteThey can try to help save the rain forest before it creates a major impact on the amount of rainfall by helping put more plants into the rainforest and by not cutting down trees.
2. How would you be able to help change the rainfall ratio back to normal?
You can help change the rainfall ratio back to normal by planting more plants and trees because they put moisture back into the air forcing the rainfall ratio to go back to normal.
3. How do you think that a change in rainfall would affect the plants or animals?
With less rainfall the amount of plants would decrease because they need water and that means that the amount of animals will also decrease because they feed on plants. It is a food chain.
I wasn't able to find a useful email address that could give an opinion, however I found this organization on Facebook called Rain forest Action and decided to let them know about this. They are a group that "campaigns for the forest" and I do believe they could give a good opinion. Here is what I said:
ReplyDeleteHello my name is Sydney and I was wondering if i could ask you to comment on one of the blogs we are doing for school. What happens is that we find an article to summarize and on this website, we share with our group what we find. This particular blog was on rain forests, and the destruction of trees, and I believe that your organization's opinion would benefit to our learning about rain forests and what is going wrong. Here is the link: http://fivepeoplethatdonthaveaname.blogspot.com/2012/09/loss-of-tropical-forests-reduces-rain.html
thank you very much!
-Sydney, Hatboro-Horsham High School