Calvin Al-Ashkar
Mrs. Beary
Environmental 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 Aamazon Rriver is the longest river in the world by volume and contains twenty percent of the Earth’s freshwater. But the Nile River is the longest when calculating width. Being as big a it is, the Aamazon holds a massive number of different types of species of wildlife with different kinds of sub-ecosystems to provide for them. When I think of the Amazon I first think of the terrestrial ecosystems. These are the land based environments. I’m going to take the first part of this project to talk about the terrestrial ecosystem in the Aamazon and all the wildlife that it holds. According to WorldAtlas there are 427 types of mammals, 1,300 types of birds, 378 types of reptiles, more than 400 kinds of amphibians, over 80,000 types of plants and trees, and estimation of over 2 million different types of insects. Unfortunately, I cannot go over every single one of these unique species so I will talk about the more popular species that benefit the jungle. The rainforest is divided in four layers: forest floor, understory, canopy and emergent. The canopy is the most heavily populated with plant life, with trees towering
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Polynesian (Greek: ‘poly’ = many, ‘nēsoi’ = islands) is the predominant culture of the South Pacific region. Of many Polynesian cultures, the most famous is Hawaiian. Polynesian traditions evolved differently on other islands over the centuries, due to the isolation imposed by great distances between them.
The Amazon has a humid climate. There’s a lot precipitation and an average temperature of 77 degrees Fahrenheit. The rainforest is found in South America. The Amazon River is surrounded by tropical rainforest. Three layers can be found in the forest. The forest floor is the bottom layer, it has an under story where all the trunks of the trees are located, and a canopy. This is where the tops of the trees are located.
B: The Amazon River is another national landmark for Brazil. It is the second largest river in the world. It is habitat to rare mammals such as the boto, also known as the Amazon River Dolphin. The Characin, similar to piranhas. And in some shallow parts of the Amazon the Anaconda, one of the world's largest species of snakes.
The Interdependence of plants, animals, and humans is integral in the Amazon Rainforest ecosystem of the tropical rainforest biome. The key features of the Amazon Rainforest is the Amazon River. The Amazon Rainforest goes through Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and many other countries. Colombia has 10%, Brazil has 60%, and Peru has 13%. 80-90 degrees during the day and 50 degrees at night is the temperature of the Amazon Rainforest. There are dry and wet seasons. it gets 9 to 10 feet of rain a year. The terrain is in the Amazon Rainforest are rocky mountains, wetlands , plains, valleys, rivers, streams, and highlands. The dirt is poor with very few nutrients and it is very muddy. It is also dense with trees and rotting logs. The thin topsoils, made of decaying vegetable and animal parts, take up all the nutrients. In the Amazon Rainforest there 's the Congo River, the Rio Negro, and the Amazon River.
According to rainforestanimals.net it states, "A wide variety of life including insects and larger animals living in ( Rainforest floor) this layer include Jaguars, Bengal Tigers, Okapis, and Southern Cassowaries". Also according to rainforestanimals.net they wrote " Animals that inhabit the rainforest canopy include Lemurs, Spider Monkeys, Sloths, Toucans, Oranguans, and Parrots". Another thing rainforestanimals.net says is that " Animals that inhabit emergent trees include a variety of insects, some species of bats, and some species of birds including the Harpy Eagles. Lastly, the reliable source of rainforestanimals.net they say, " Many animals have special adaptions that allow them to live in tropical conditions, but would not survive outside the ecosystem. These animals include but are not limited to Toucans, Parrots, Sloths, Orangutans, Gorillas, and Lemurs". What all these quotes tell you is that the Amazon Rainforest is one of the many forests that support and protect most of the animals on our planet. This also shows how it has many creature who adapt to its conditions show that they may be able to survive and grow in a peculiar
The Amazon Rainforest is the largest rainforest and river basin in the world. It covers around 2.1 million square miles of land, and exists in eight different countries and one French Territory. The Amazon rainforest is one of the most diverse places on the planet, accounting for ten percent of all known species, with more being discovered every year. But in this fragile ecosystem, people see opportunity to make money and a lifestyle, sometimes even illegally, trying to profit in the logging, mining, and agriculture industries. However, these industries help contribute to the deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest.
The Brazilian Rainforest is one of the most unique, vast, and diverse regions of the world. To get a general idea of the diversity of the Rainforest, it makes up a total of one-third of the world forests (more than four million square kilometers), it contains half of the total number of named species in the world (eighty-thousand plant species, 1,500 fish species, and one-forth of the 8,600 bird species), and is the world largest holder of genes (Library 138-139). To say the least, the Brazilian Rainforest is one of the most important natural resources we, as humans, know. It would seem that this knowledge, alone, would also make the Brazilian Rainforest one of the most protected land areas on Earth as well. However, the situation is
The Denver Academy has recently researched and defined some of the important facts surrounding the Amazon rainforest. In 2017, the Amazon rainforest covers 2.1 million square miles of South America. It is a vast ecosystem home to 10% of the world’s known species (The Denver Academy). They go on to say that the trees are so dense, when it rains, it takes 10 minutes for the water to break through the forest roof. The destruction of this habitat could lead to extinction of these species, and have devastating impacts all over the world from the loss of the lungs of the earth. While it is mainly concentrated in Brazil there are also large portions of the rainforest in Peru and Colombia, so many populations and economies are directly affected
The Amazon contains nearly half of the tropical rain forests of the world and a large area of tropical savannah, constituting a major source of natural resources. The vast expanse of the Amazon and its position in the humid tropics gives the region a significant potential to influence the global
The Amazon rainforest is the largest rainforest in the world, with about 5.5 million km2, of which 3.3 million are in Brazil, representing 45% of the country. The remaining 40% are divided between French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. The Amazon region is also home to the largest river basin in the world, with an area of 7.3 million km2.
The Amazon River Basin is named as one of the 7 wonders of nature. It covers nearly 2,700,000 square miles. There are eight countries that fall within the border of the Amazon River Basin; they are Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Suriname, and Guiana. The Amazon rainforest covers 2,100,000 of those miles. To give you a greater sense of the size, the rainforest is about the size of the United States. It is estimated to have 16,000 tree species and 30 percent of the world’s species found there, and over 90% of the animal species in the Amazon are insects. The Amazon rainforest is one of Earth's last refuges for jaguars, harpy eagles and pink dolphins, and home to thousands of birds and butterflies. Tree-dwelling species include southern two-toed sloths, pygmy marmosets, saddleback and emperor tamarins, and Goeldi's monkeys. (World Wildlife Fund. n.d.) We do know there are 40,000 plant species, and 3,000 freshwater fish species and more than 370 types of reptiles. But people live there too, it’s estimated that 20 million people live in the rainforest. (World Wildlife Fund. n.d.)
In 2000, United Nations announced the Millennium Declaration for global development and committed to achieve eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 (United Nations, 2000). Over the past 15 years, by reviewing and reflecting the failures and success of these ambitious goals (Childs, 2015), the debate about international giving continues. To support the stance about “the U.S. government and NGOs should stop aiding more to foreign countries,” this memo will briefly indicate this stand. In order to be well prepared for our debate, this note could provide a brief outline for this point of view.
The Amazon is not only the last remaining rainforest in the World but is also one of the most important biomes for global human-well being (Bonan, 2008; Fearnside, 2008). The biome belongs to nine countries, including Ecuador (Reference). The Ecuadorian Amazon region has been considered as one of the most well preserved areas in the Western Hemisphere (Bass et al., 2010; Finer et al., 2008; Finer et al., 2009; Larrea et al., 2012). In particular the South-Central area (i.e. Yasuní National Park), which is situated in an extraordinary location along the Equator where the Andes and the Amazon meet, is one of the leading biodiversity hotspots in the World (Bass et al., 2010).
Melo, Éverton Renan de Andrade, et al. "Diversity, Abundance and the Impact of Hunting on Large Mammals in Two Contrasting Forest Sites in Northern Amazon." Wildlife Biology21.5 (2015): 234-245. Academic Search Premier. Web. 17 Nov. 2015.