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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Disease‚ Hunger‚ Poverty‚ etc. Most people do not think of the Amazon rainforest as a global issue‚ but it is swiftly becoming a large problem. The Amazon rainforest is covers a vast area of South America‚ housing some of the most magnificent plant species and animals‚ some found nowhere else in the world. Loggers‚ a group of people that use the rainforest to cut down the trees for wood‚ are a huge problem in the rainforest. Deforestation is killing acres and acres of land‚ cause at least 35 species
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Rainforests are the most important places on earth. Rainforests are home to about fifty million people and millions of species of animals‚ plants‚ and insects. The largest rainforest in the world is the Amazon rainforest which grows in nine different countries in Latin America. Amazon rainforest has the second longest river in the world which is called Amazon River. Rainforest has many different species of animals‚ birds and insects. Some are strange‚ some are beautiful‚ and some are even new
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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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TROPICAL CYCLONES IN AUSTRALI A Tropical cyclone is one of the most common natural hazards in Australia. It’s also called ‘typhoon’‚ ‘hurricane’‚ ‘tropic storm’ and so on. If you look at the climatological data for tropical cyclone‚ you can find out that the actual shape of a tropical cyclone is almost the same as a whirlpool. How could this amazing phenomenon happen? There’re several conditions needed to develop a tropical cyclone. Tropical cyclones are formed above the ocean
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BACKGROUND INFOMRATION Deforestation occurs for many reasons‚ most deal with expansion of the modern world. Cattle ranching is one of the main causes “of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest” because the beef produced is used to feed urban areas‚ leather and other products are for exporting to other markets (Butler). It accounts for around 70% of deforestation in the Amazon region (Butler). Forests are being cleared for the expansion of agriculture‚ both subsistence and commercial. For or instance
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complete community of living organisms and the only nonliving materials of their sorroundings . The Amazon Rainforest is found in South America‚ spanning across Brazil and Bolivia. It covers much of the northwestern Brasil and it is the largest tropical rainforest in the world. It’s crisscrossed with thousands of rivers. The Amazon represents over half of the planet’s remaining rainforests. It covering over five and a half a million square kilometres (1.4 billion acres. An abiotic factor
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available arable land‚ the Amazonian Rainforest is a tempting place to turn into agricultural lots. Although expanding agriculture into Amazonia appears to benefit the people by
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A tropical rainforest is an ecosystem that occurs roughly within 28 degrees north or south of the equator (equatorial zone between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn). They are characterised by their humidity (average of 88% in the rainy season and 77% in the dry season)‚ hot temperature (average 27.9 °C during the dry season and 25.8 °C during the rainy season) but more importantly their extremely high rainfall (torrential rainfall - between 1‚500 mm and 3‚000 mm annually). Tropical rainforests
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biodiversity in the Amazon? Introduction The Amazon rainforest is the world’s greatest remaining natural resource‚ and the most powerful and bio actively diverse natural wonder on the planet. Its size is so great that if the Amazonian were to be a country‚ it would be the ninth largest in the world. It covers more than 1.2 billion acres of land‚ and has approximately 6.47 square kilometres of rainforest; making up 54% of the word’s rainforests. The Amazon rainforest is known as the Earth’s lungs‚ due to its
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