Known as the Amazon rainforest or Amazon basin is a very pretty and fascinating rainforest to visit. The Amazon rainforest is also referred to as the “Lungs of the Planet” because it produces more than 20% of the world's oxygen. The Amazon rainforest is very large and spans 1.7 billion acres or 2,656,250 square miles. It stretches through Nine states, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana.The Amazon River is located in South America. It runs through
The Amazon Rainforest: Draft two The Amazon: Once an unbound place of dreams, now just a relinquished rainforest bled in heavenly pain from which the mortal men reap their holy resources. Nevertheless it is still mystical with its sun kissed heat and unforgiving humidity, this is truly an eternally endless land that flourishes into the distance… The brown glimmer of the murky Amazonian River shows it’s a place of myth and legend – inhabited by the Great Pink River Dolphin that blissfully bounds
Introduction The Amazon rainforest location is in South America. It could be describe as a jungle and the area where it location is known to belong to about nine different countries. It is however know that the Amazon rain forest belong mostly to brazil because according to McGann (2005) Brazil has 60% of the total area which the forest occupy. Other countries that own part of the rain forest include Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guyana. Also known about the rain forest
Calvin Al-Ashkar Mrs. Beary Envormental Sciences 11/10/17 The Amazon Rainforest Covering more than forty percent of South America is the Amazon Rainforest. It’s known for being the largest rainforest on the planet. Most of the jungle lies in Brazil. The Amazon Rainforest also holds the Amazon River. According to the National Science Foundation, the amazon river is the longest river in the world by volume and contains twenty percent of the Earths’ freshwater. But the Nile River is the longest
This particular diverse ecosystem is one of the earth’s last remaining undisturbed connections to the natural world, yet I fear our Amazon Rainforest may not be around for much longer. The Amazon Rainforest takes up 5.5 million km2 of South America, and is one of the richest and most diverse biomes on this planet. Encompassing over half of the world’s tropical rainforest in
ᖇᗩIᑎᖴOᖇEᔕTᔕ вч: ѕnєhα nαgαrαkαntí Rainforests are woodland of tall trees growing in a region with year-round warmth, and abundant rainfall. Tropical rainforest are only located 6 to 7% of the Earth's surface but they support more than half the world's plants and animals. In spite of the benefits, people cut down thousands of square miles of rainforest each year for its resources like medicine and food. Since most of the plants and animals live in rainforest most of the Earth's plants and animals
that live there. A portion of the Abiotic components of the Amazon Rainforest are things like water, mugginess, soil, temperature, and rocks. The amazon rainforest gets around 9 ft of water as precipitation consistently. Since the rainforest is loaded with a mixed bag of animal types, water is a crucial requirement for survival. Furthermore, mugginess makes something verging on like a defensive obstruction around the amazon rainforest that ensures it against timberland fires. When it turns out to
The Amazon Rainforest: Draft two The Amazon: Once an unbound place of dreams, now just a prophesized rainforest bled in heavenly pain from which the mortal men reap their holy resources leaving a fertile wasteland. Nevertheless it is still mystical with its sun kissed heat and unforgiving humidity; this is truly an eternally endless land that flourishes into the distance… The brown glimmer of the murky Amazonian River shows it’s a place of myth and legend – inhabited by the Great Pink River Dolphin
The Amazon rainforest, the most extensive of existing natural forests in the world, occupies an area of approximately 5.5 x 106 km2, and the Brazilian side covers 3.85 x 106 km2, representing 45% of the country. A major source of warming of the atmosphere, except for a narrow range over the oceans extending parallel to the equator are the equatorial portions of the continents, which mostly are still covered by natural forests, including the Amazon. The Amazon contains nearly half of the tropical
the Amazon rainforest. There goes less oxygen we breath everyday. There goes another living thing. The Amazon rainforest is suffering, and as the rainforest suffers, so do we. Business people usually don’t care about the Amazon, and, probably, use paper made from the rainforest trees, but that’s because they didn’t do their research in middle school. Some people say that the Amazon rainforest are the lungs of the Earth, but they could also be the heart as well. If we don’t save this rainforest, then