Amazon Rainforest. The Amazon Rainforest is a unique habitat filled with wildlife. With its tropical weather‚ the Amazon has an abundance amount of rain per year. In addition to that‚ this forest has a vast variety of animals and plants. All of these add to the water vapor going into the air. WIth all these vast variety of animals and plants‚ there is probably a lot of evaporation going on. The Amazon Rainforest is one of a variety of tropical rainforests. It is normal for tropical rainforests to be
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The Amazon Rainforest is the largest rainforest on earth. It takes up 40 percent of South American continents and includes 8 parts of South American countries. The Amazon Rainforest has the 2 largest rivers on earth‚ the Amazon River and the Nile River. The Amazon is the world’s largest in terms of discharge. The Amazon River is the largest drainage system in the world in terms of its volume of its flow and the area of its basin. The total length of this river is at least 4‚000 miles‚ which makes
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The Amazon Rainforest is located in Brazil. It is famous for it’s Amazon River‚ which is the second largest river in the world behind the Nile River. But the main point about this essay is deforestation. Right at this moment the Amazon Rainforest is losing lots of things like it’s fine trees and the wildlife because group of people are making their living using the resources of the Amazon. I will talk about six groups in the Amazon Rainforest. Their names are Native Amazonians‚ Rubber Tappers‚ Loggers
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Example of a mutualistic relationship An example of a mutualistic relationship in the Daintree rainforest is the relationship between the Ulysses butterfly and the pink flowered doughwood. This relationship is mutualistic because the pink flowered doughwood needs a specific insect pollinator‚ the Ulysses butterfly‚ and the Ulysses butterfly relies on the pink flowered doughwood for the nectar on which it survives‚ making them both benefit and rely on each other. Example of a commensal relationship
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The rainforest destruction has been greatly disturbing to the indigenous people. Their cultures and traditions have been forgotten‚ due to the relying of the city life. Therefore‚ city life would be enhanced greatly‚ crushing and disrupting the old traditions. Without traditional foods and methods to sustain food‚ indigenous people have to integrate with mainstream societies. Once the rainforests have been logged‚ settles would greatly claim for the logged land. Due to the activity or agriculture
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Karipuna‚ the people who Salge has interviewed‚ is an Indigenous community in the state of Rondônia in Brazil with 58 members remaining‚ living in an officially protected area in the hear of the Amazon rainforest. Surrounded by numerous cattle farms and destroyed rainforest‚ they have become more and more vulnerable to constant death threats. With that being said‚ the Karipuna has constantly received death threats and blackmails from the logging industry. A colossal size of forest about
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The worst impact deforestation has on the amazon rainforest is the loss of habitat for many important species. This has greatly impacted the habitats of species in the Amazon rainforest. There are about ten million species that have been discovered by man living on earth. More than half of these species live in tropical rainforests such as the Amazon. Many keystone species and apax predators have habitats in the Amazon. A keystone species is a species that has many important interactions within a
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them out of the forest‚ but even this is damaging because to get the trees out they need to bulldoze a path in and out and often destroy more trees than they are selling. In this essay I am going to express my views on deforestation. The Amazon rainforest is about the size of Europe and every day roughly 51.8 square kilometres are cut down. So that’s 18‚900 square km a year and that’s a lot. One of the main reasons for deforestation is the actions of Brazil‚ in the 1970 – 80’s Brazil borrowed a large
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The Amazon Rainforest‚ and Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world. Located in South America‚ encompassing parts of Peru‚ Ecuador‚ Colombia‚ Venezuela‚ Guyana‚ Suriname‚ French Guiana‚ Bolivia and much of Brazil. The Amazon‚ like the rest of the forests‚ has a great variety of fauna‚ flora and mineral deposits. All are important for balance‚ both climate and ecological. The Amazon forest is developed around the Amazon River and its watershed. The title of "lungs of the planet" that holds the
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Like sighting an endangered species in the Amazon Rain Forest‚ spotting acts of chivalry in today’s world are a rare sight. Perhaps its scarcity is due to the emerging power of feminism‚ or maybe the deterioration of classic manners. Whatever the cause‚ the decline of chivalry has taken a toll on society and the way that it functions. The real question is‚ is chivalry dead? And what should society do about it? As a sixteen-year-old girl with a single mother and younger brother‚ there have not
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