Question

What is the average annual temperature of Amazon?
A. 15°C-20°C
B. 20°C-25°C
C. 25°C-30°C
D. 30°C-35°C

Answer 1

Hint: Think warm and tropical climate, with cloud forests and adjoining areas being significantly cooler (winds from Antarctica).
This is due to its presence on the Equator, ensuring constant stream of sunlight for almost 12 hours consistently throughout the year.

Complete answer: Option C. is the correct answer.
- It has a lot of humidity, from the rainfall and transpiration from the canopy trees.
On average, rainforests receive anywhere from 80 inches to 430 inches of rain, due to being present in the ITCZ (Intertropical Convergence Zone). They often produce almost 3/4ths of their own rain.
- It is the world’s most diverse habitat, with entrenched symbiotic (mutually beneficial) relationships shared between its organisms. This broadleaf biome has one of every ten species on Earth living here.
- It has layers of vegetation, with overstays and shrubby undergrowth. We are talking 130 feet of biodiversity. It has at least 1100 species.
- The Amazon river is the largest in volume. Its basin is shared by 9 countries, the primary being Brazil. It got its name in Spanish and Portuguese.
- Within this forest itself are present many different types like mangroves, montane (slopey mountains) forests, swamps and deciduous growth. They are not demarcated clearly. They are evergreen thanks to the stable weather.

Note: The etymology tells us that the name came from a war, where women and men fought as equals. It was derived from Greek mythology.