world‚ and the most spatacular place that caught my attention was the tropical rain forest.Tropical rainforests cover about 6% of the Earth’s total land surface. They are mainly located around the belt at the equator. The climate of the rainforest is warm most of the year and has a lot of rain through most of the year. The climate is perfect for animals and plant growth. Even though the rainforests cover such a little amount of land mass of the Earth‚ they are home to the largest number of plant and
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Deforestation The “Slashing and burning” of rainforests has to stop. The deforestation of our rainforests is effecting our environment and us more than you may think. We get the oxygen we need from trees‚ forests protect us from Carbon Dioxide‚ and forests protect most of Earth’s plants and animals. We need trees to breathe and rainforests to protect us from harsh things that we emit from our bodies. Many rainforests help and protect us. “More than 20% of the world’s oxygen comes from the Amazon”
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Tundra and Tropical Rainforest are two contrasting biomes‚ different in many ways. First of all‚ location. Tundra is located in the coldest parts of the world‚ like the most northern parts of America (i.e. Alaska) and Greenland. Alpine tundra can be found in places of high altitude‚ like the top of a mountain or similar. Tundra covers about 20% of the world’s surface‚ yet only 4 million people live there. That is 0.006% of the world’s population. Rainforest
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Christina Jackson Environmental sciences ECOSYSTEMS RAINFOREST By: Christina L. Jackson The business dictionary definition of rainforest is a dense forest of evergreen trees growing in regions of heavy year-round rainfall in tropical latitudes (such as Amazon Basin‚ Borneo‚ New Guinea‚ North-East India‚ and Zair Basin) and warm temperate latitudes (such as Eastern Australia‚ Florida‚ South Africa‚ South Brazil‚ South and Central China‚ South Japan‚ and New Zealand’s North Island). Nearly half
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on the importance of rainforests and why we must save them. We all know that Malaysia has the oldest rainforest in the world ‚ but do we really understand what rainforests do? Rainforests safeguard our existence on this planet because they help maintain the environmental balance within the ecosystem. This is because rainforests contain many trees and plants. These absorb the carbon dioxide in the air and release oxygen for us to breathe. When rainforests are destroyed‚ there
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carbon emissions” (Ivancic). We need rainforests because they are the lungs of our planet‚ helping it absorb the greenhouse gases that cause global warming. Tropical rainforests also produce the oxygen we breath. “Forests act as sponges to absorb greenhouse gases; destroying forests releases those gases into the atmosphere” (Palm Oil’s Deceptive Lure). It is hard for people to change their lifestyle in order to decrease the rate of global warming. However‚ if rainforests continue to be destroyed‚ our quality
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Deforestation Mitigation Strategies Tropical rainforests cover approximately thirty percent of the earth’s land area‚ around 2.5 million square miles‚ the size of the lower 48 states‚ despite the fact 80‚000 acres (32‚000) hectares are destroyed per day for economic reasons. Tropical rainforests are biodiversity hotspots. Rainforests are carbon sinks absorbing about half the carbon dioxide humans release into the atmosphere. Continued deforestation will affect the entire world with the ecological
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expectations of a dining experience. This discussion post will take a look at a dining experience at the Rainforest Café and compare it to a dining experience at Ruby Tuesday restaurant and will evaluate the differences in quality and value. Recently I dined at to the Rainforest Café in Disney World. The entertaining experience was amazing as you felt like you were in a rainforest setting. The experience consisted of the sounds of birds chirping‚ thunderstorms‚ and animatronic jungle animals
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actions of car-free advocates from around the world‚ cars and trucks account for about fourteen percent of global carbon emissions‚ while most analysts attribute upwards of fifteen percent to deforestation; this means that deforestation in tropical rainforests add more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than the sum of cars and trucks on all the roads of the entire world (Scheer). With not only the local concern‚ but also the global effects of
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How have people in New Guinea Island adapted to tropical rainforests? Introduction Tropical rainforests are special geographical landscape around the world‚ which are covered with various species of plants and animals. The tropical rainforests are wet and hot. Mean monthly temperatures exceed 18 °C (64 °F) during all months of the year and average annual rainfall is no less than 168 cm. (Woodward‚ 1997)It is obvious very difficult and unsuitable for human to live in‚ although there are many advantageous
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