1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
Angelina_Jolie [31]
3 years ago
9

Identify and describe the environmental impact of development on the amazon basin.​

Geography
1 answer:
Nadya [2.5K]3 years ago
3 0

The Amazon Basin is located in brazil. For centuries, this has protected the area, people, and the animals residing in it. Forest recession has occurred in the past 30 years due to increased industry and population growth through road projects, settlement initiatives, and industrial development.

The Amazon Basin includes a diversity of traditional inhabitants as well as biodiversity in both flora and fauna. These peoples have lived in the rain forest for thousands of years, and their lifestyles and cultures are well-adapted to this environment. Contrary to popular belief, their subsistence living methods do not significantly harm the environment. In the past few decades, the real threat to the Amazon Basin has been deforestation, poaching, and cattle ranching by transnational corporations.

Oil and gas development often also takes a heavy toll on the environment and local people; especially in rainforest areas where it can cause displacement of local people, air and water pollution, and construction of roads that open previously inaccessible areas to deforestation.

That said, even a new NASA study shows that over the last 20 years, the atmosphere above the Amazon Basin has been drying out, increasing the demand for water and leaving ecosystems vulnerable to fires and drought. It also shows that this increase in dryness is primarily the result of human activities.

Summary: all impacts caused by human development in the Amazon Basin is causing the atmosphere to go bad, the crops and indigenous plants to die at alarming rates, the water to be polluted, and the animals and humans who are indigenous of the area suffer the consequences.

 

You might be interested in
What two obstacles do less developed countries face? How do they approach development?
Kaylis [27]

Answer:

<em>Developing countries two major issues, of low incomes and eventually lower tax collections.</em>

Explanation:

Obstacle 1: Developing countries usually have a population with a low income. There are a lot of poor people, very few businesses are documented and there are very few well established larger corporations.

Obstacle 2: Lower income results in a low tax collection for the country. This means that the government is not able to meet its basic infrastructure resulting in underdeveloped health facilities and basic infrastructure.

In order to improve this, they look for either foreign direct investment into their country or take out loans from international banks to fund basic needs.

If done well, countries can escape from poverty. However if loans are mismanaged, countries can quickly find themselves burdened with rising debt and more poverty.

8 0
3 years ago
PLEASE HELP!!
stepladder [879]

Answer:

anguage

Watch

Edit

Russia, the world's largest country (by total area), comprises much of northern Eurasia, and stretches over a vast expanse of Europe and Northern Asia.[1] Due to its size, Russia displays both monotony and diversity. As with its topography, its climates, vegetation, and soils span vast distances.[2] From north to south the East European Plain is clad sequentially in tundra, coniferous forest (taiga), mixed and broadleaf forests, grassland (steppe), and semi-desert (fringing the Caspian Sea) as the changes in vegetation reflect the changes in climate. Siberia supports a similar sequence but is predominantly taiga. The country contains forty UNESCO biosphere reserves

3 0
3 years ago
Which gulf is off the southern coast of the united states?
Brums [2.3K]
<h2>Answer: The Gulf of Mexico </h2>

The Gulf of Mexico is an ocean basin that formed after the collision of the continental plates and the sinking of the seabed during the rupture of the former Pangea mega continent millions of years ago.

This gulf is also the ninth largest water surface in the world, which is contained among the littorals of Mexico, the United States and the island of Cuba. Therefore, this mass of water corresponds to the Atlantic Ocean in the northern part of the American Continent.

4 0
3 years ago
PLEASE ANSWER QUICK
KonstantinChe [14]

Answer:

your mom gay lolololololol

Explanation:

5 0
3 years ago
¿hace frio y calor todo el año en los desiertos?
Afina-wow [57]
Sí. Hace frío durante la noche y hace calor durante el día
4 0
2 years ago
Other questions:
  • Which religions were founded in Europe and Southwest Asia
    5·1 answer
  • Wallace's Line refers to: Group of answer choices1. the fault in Australia where earthquakes are particularly severe 2. the line
    9·2 answers
  • Which map element helps determine the real distance between locations on a map? A. compass rose B. inset map C. legend D. scale
    13·2 answers
  • Archaeologists Louis and Mary Leakey found some of the oldest human remains in<br> during the 1950s.
    5·2 answers
  • due to their sensitivity to environmental conditions, what it closely monitored. If their populations decline, it’s a sign that
    15·1 answer
  • An underground layer of rock or sand that holds water is called a(n) __________. A. geothermal layer B. glacier C. reservoir D.
    12·2 answers
  • PLEASE HELP IM GIVING OUT 30 POINTS!!!!
    7·2 answers
  • How does the inner core differ from the outer core? Earth Cores
    6·1 answer
  • What is the primary language
    9·2 answers
  • What is the distribution of water on earth? plz help<br>​
    12·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!