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    Rainforest Destruction and Its Effect on the World By Jeremy Zahn Composition 1101-96 05/13/2008 Table of contents Introduction……………………………………………………………...…..2 Thesis: The demands of civilization have increased the need for more consumable commodities‚ even at the cost of destroying the very lungs of our planet. At the same time that our civilization prospers from these products‚ the local peoples of the rainforest suffer greatly. There is an even greater effect on the world as species

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    The Borneo Rainforest

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    The Borneo Rainforest is located in Borneo which is the third largest island in the world and is located north of Java‚ Indonesia‚ at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia. The Rainforest is 130 million years old‚ which makes it the oldest rainforest in the world. The Borneo rainforest is one of the only remaining natural habitats for the endangered Bornean Orangutan. It is an important refuge for many endemic forest species‚ including the Asian Elephant‚ the Sumatran Rhinoceros‚ the

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    Amazon Rainforests

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    Today we will be in the Amazon rainforest. Which is located near the equator. This will tell the story of jack being lost in the Amazon rainforest. Jack the explorer: NOt again why did I have to get lost. Well I know what to do. Narrator:He looks at the canopy trees. Jack the explorer: It’s so unique that trees want the sun so much they grow taller to get just like people who worked for what they have. Jack the explorer: Now begins the climb I start at the rainforest floor and I go to a tree that

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    Rainforest Destruction

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    The rainforests of the world all have one thing in common: they are all based around the equator and the tropics. Without them‚ many of our household products such as wooden furniture and basic necessities like coal and even air would not exist. We are losing all of our raw materials up just as we are beginning to appreciate their true value. Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth’s land surface; now they cover a mere 6% and scientists estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be drained

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    The Amazon rainforest is located in Brazil‚ South America. In the middle of the Equator and the Tropic Of Capricorn. I used this photo to show the delicacy of the food web. Plant and animal ecosystem would be affected if you took out one of the species of the food web. The Amazon rainforest consists of four layers or communities. Each layer has unique ecosystems‚ plants‚ and animals adapted to that system. Many of the species in the rainforest are vulnerable to extinction because they depend

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    Amazon Rainforest

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    In the Amazon Rainforest‚ new research is being done that has completely changed the way that we now see the Amazon. European accounts from centuries ago‚ tell of large Amazonian cities all up and down its banks. This idea was thought to be untrue due to finding that the Amazon soils were not actually fertile at all. But‚ that idea is now being challenged‚ with the finding of‚ terra preta. The reason that I decided to choose this topic is because I think it needs much more attention than it is given

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    Brazilian Rainforest

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    Brazilian Rainforest is home to a myriad of exotic animals‚ each equipped with their own fair share of abilities to survive in the wild. There are one thousand seven hundred species of birds‚ six hundred ninety-five amphibious species‚ six hundred fifty-one species of reptiles and five hundred seventy-eight mammalian species (Butler‚ 2014). In Brazil resides one-third of the world’s rainforests‚ which is nestled right around the Earth’s equator (Butler‚ 2014). As a result‚ the rainforests experience

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    Temperatures usually average 27.9 °C during the dry season‚ and 25.8 °C during the rainy season. Relative humidity is quite high at an average of 88% in the rainy season and 77% in the dry season. Every year‚ the Amazon rainforest receives torrential rainfall - between 1‚500 mm and 3‚000 mm. Where does all that water come from? Eastern trade winds that blow from the Atlantic Ocean account for about half of the rainfall‚ with the other half due to evapotranspiration - the

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    Amazon Rainforest: Clear-Cutting the Myths. There has been talk for years about the destruction of the Amazon rain forest. However‚ the Amazon is one of the most intact and least-endangered forests on the planet. The claim that the rain forests are being destroyed "at a rate of 20 football fields a minute" is false.

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    assortment from the most straightforward smaller scale life form to the exceptionally troublesome primates. Biodiversity can relate locally or all inclusive. Case in point the Southern New England woodland incorporates 20 or 30 tree species while in the rainforest of Peru there are colossal amounts of types of trees (Patrick 15). There are likewise extra approaches to view biodiversity and that is in stages. These stages can be the "assorted qualities of more noteworthy vegetation‚ amount of species‚ or communicated

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