Biomes Homework Part 2

Forest:
"Intact, the Amazon produces half its own rainfall through the moisture it releases into the atmosphere. Eliminate enough of that rain through clearing, and the remaining trees dry out and die"

Why are the trees able to adapt to the atmosphere change and store more moisture once it is released into the atmosphere that why it doesn't suffer during the period where there is no moisture?

This quote about the trees made me kind of connect it to my project in Margret's class, which is on the topic of overpopulation. I believe the same thing is going to happen to us once we reach a population of 10billion people. The resources that we have will be used by those who get it and those who luck out will just die off.

Dessert:
"They were, we'd been told, wild and unpredictable and as hard and unforgiving as the sands of the desert"

What did they mean by "as hard and unforgiving as the sands of the desert"?

Even though I don't fully understand what the African people were referring to in the quote above I like the way they used a metaphor as a way to make the comparison rather than just stating they were similar and how.

Fresh Water:
"The trouble, as farmers see it, came to a boiling point in 1997. That's the year coho salmon were accorded federal protection under the Endangered Species Act, which would entitle them to minimum flows of water. In 2001 tensions came to a dramatic head when the federal government shut off irrigation water to some 1,400 Klamath Reclamation Project farmers, including Kandra."

What is irrigation water? Why did it make farmers so mad?

This brings me back to the overpopulation topic that I was talking about above, it kind of sucks to think about but we are now in the same predicament that the animals have somewhat been in for a long time. Before a lot of us have disagreed with the laws against haunting certain animals such as the farmers in the quote above, but once something small turns into something massive the outcome is never to good.