Muse Bari Posted March 25, 2004 THE AMAZON TROPICAL RAINFOREST STARLING STATISTICS Aslama Alaykum every body I get geographic quiz i made it i write the answers down anywayz if u can think u can do it just do it otherwise wait fot hte result. Th Amazon River Basin makes up the world's largest tropical rainforest. Even thought it covers only 4% of the world's total area, it accounts for 1___________% of the world's tropical rainforest. the amazon river flows across the rainforest from the 2__________ mountain range in the west to the 3___________ longest river (after the nile) it carries more than any other river. In fact, at any one moment the amazon river holds 4________% of the world's fresh water.the system includes around 5___________ tributaries. Seventeen of these are over 1600km long! It is difficult for us to comprehend the size of the amazon river. New Zealand longest river river, the 6___________ is tiny when compared to the amazon. the waikato is 425km long, whereas the amazon travel 7________km from its source to its mouth. this distance is roughly equivalent to travelling from Mogdisho to Cerigabo 8 _______times. Ocean going ships are able to travel over 9_________kms upstream to iquitos in peru. AT it's mouth the waikato river is 700m wide. The amazon river mouth however is around 10_________km wide. this is approximately the distance between MOgdisho and 11__________. Every day the waikato river carries 12__________ tonnes os suspended load. Compare this to amazon river, which carries 1.3 million tonnes of suspended load daily! 360 cubic metres of water are discharged into the 13_________ tasman sea by the waikato river every second.The amount of water is so great that fresh water is pushed out into the atlantic ocean for over 14_______ kilometres. Answers. 33, atlantic, 4.5, 160,000, andes, 25, second, 3500, 1100, waikato, 7200, Baydhabo, 70, Tasman, 500, 250, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
