The Amazon rainforest has nearly 40,000 plant species, ranging from tiny mosses to huge trees.
Many of the Amazon’s trees are economically important, including luxury woods such as
mahogany, Brazil nut trees, which produce edible nuts and oils used in cooking and beauty
Products, kapok trees, which produce a cotton-like fibre often used as a stuffing for
cushions and Murumuru palms, which produce vitamin A. These trees and plants also
absorb huge amounts of carbon, helping to prevent dangerous climate change. It’s estimated that
the Amazon’s forests store between 90 and 140 billion tonnes of carbon. Many of the trees and
plants found in the Amazon and other rainforests are used by people around the world for food,
medicine,
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Rainforest plants like to live in a warm humid environment that
allows an enormous variation that is rare in more temperate climates. Some plants like the
orchids have beautiful flowers adapted to attract the attention of forest insects. Botanical experts
say that in 2.5 acres of the forest you can find 700 different species of trees and twice that
number of plants. Although it may be hard to believe, the soil of the Amazon rainforest is very
poor in nutrients.The Amazon rainforest soil holds only 20% of the nutrients in the forest; the
other 80% are in the trees and plants themselves. The explanation as to why is rather simple, the
Amazon Region has a dry and a wet season. In the wet season the water level of the Amazon
River rises dramatically, and in some places it reaches 15 meters higher than dry season. This means that in the rainy season a huge portion of the forest gets flooded. This works like a great
mechanism for exchanging and transporting nutrients and is crucial for the whole forest. The
Amazon rainforest soil works like a sponge and even being not very nutrient rich, it can hold
enough nutrients to help maintain the trees until the next rainy season. The Water Lily is
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In the Amazon rainforest you can find lakes
filled with water lilies almost creating an illusion of a solid floor. In the amazon there are over
40,000 plant species, 16,000 tree species, 5,600 fish species, 1,300 birds, 430+ mammals, 1,000+
amphibians, and 400+ reptiles.The mighty Amazon river is believed to have been discovered in
16th. century -around 1541- by Spanish explorer Francisco de Orellana, later on, Portuguese
explorer Pedro Teixeira led the voyage upstream that opened it to world's knowledge, as legend
goes, he named it as such because of reported encounters with wild women warriors - the Greek
myth about the women warriors whose valor and war cry had fearful effect on their adversaries.
Its source is lake Lauricocha, in the Peruvian Andes, and known as the Marañon in its upper
river. Ucayali river joins the Marañon to eventually form the river of rivers. It spans over nine
South American countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana,
French Guinea and Suriname. Sixty percent of the total river lies in Brazil.The Amazon river is
the largest river basin in the world. It's about 4,195 miles long covering an area of 2,700,000
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.
One of the biome which I found interesting was the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon Rainforest is region which is owned by more than 1 country because of its land mass. It is actually owned by 9 nations. This biome is situated in the amazon basin of South Africa. The Amazon Rainforest covers 5,500,000 km2 (2,123,562 sq mi) of total 7000000 km2 of the Amazon basin. This particular rainforest cover more than 50% of the world rainforest biome. So as to understand this particular rainforest biome better, I am going to talk about the Brazil part of the rainforest as it owns 60% of the rainforest. I found this particular
Today, the total percentage of forest cover of the earth is approximately thirty percent (“Deforestation”). That is about nine percent of the world’s total surface. The largest rainforest is the Amazon River Basin, located in South America. The Amazon is home to many species of animals, insects, plants and trees. Many of the trees and plants in the Amazon produce about twenty percent of the oxygen on earth, and absorb carbon. However, the Amazon is decreasing in size every day due to the ongoing deforestation of the land. Deforestation is when the forest of the land are cleared or destroyed, in order to be used for other actions (“Deforestation”). The Amazon is twenty percent less than it was about forty years ago (Wallace). In just about
and there were billions of trees there, and all of them gorgeous and just um..
Did you know that the rainforest is a fantastic biome? It has three parts that make it special. The forest is also home to more plant life than any other. It’s pretty big. Rainforests have a climate and appearance, producers, and consumers specific to the ecosystem.
Surprisingly, scientists have a better understanding of how many stars there are in the galaxy than they have of how many species there are on Earth. Estimates vary from 2 million to 100 million species, with a best estimate of somewhere near 10 million; only 1.4 million of these species have actually been named. Today, rainforests occupy only 2 percent of the entire Earth's surface and 6 percent of the world's land surface, yet these remaining lush rainforests support over half of our planet's wild plants and trees and one-half of the world's wildlife. Hundreds and thousands of these rainforest species are being
The Amazon Rainforest is probably the most important region that is threatened by deforestation. With over four million squared kilometers it is roughly the size of the United States. The Amazon spreads across nine South American Countries and contains one-fifth of the Worlds fresh water and one-third of the known living species. The land is home to hundreds of indigenous groups and is considered by many to be “the lungs of the planet”.
There are also over 40,000 plant species; they don't call the Amazon "the lungs of the planet" for nothing. The rainforest plays an important role in maintaining local and worldwide climate. Yet, rampant deforestation is killing off native species of plants and animals. Industries, like agriculture, logging and mining, http://globalpublicpolicywatch.org/2014/01/14/deforestation-logging-and-mining-a-deadly-combination-for-the-amazon-rainforest/ are invasive and environmentally
Did you know that Brazil is home to one-third of the world’s rainforests? The beautiful South American country, Brazil, whose size is 3.288 million square miles, is home to one of the largest rainforests of the world, the Amazon rainforest. Something that a lot of people don’t know is that the Brazilian rainforests are extremely important and they not only affect the people of Brazil, but everyone around the world. Since the Amazon rainforest is so large in size, it would only make sense if it affect the world more than other rainforests. Therefore, Brazilian rainforests affect our world greatly because of all of the things that we gain from it, the harmful effects of deforestation, and because of deforestation, we need to teach people to conserve the rainforests.
Rainforests are extremely rich in all kinds of life.The rainforest is filled with a lot of animals and plants.The most popular animals in the rainforest are the Toucan,Gorilla,Boa Constrictor, and the Orangutan.The most popular plants in the rainforest are ,Palm Euterpe Precatoria,Bromeliads,Epiphyte, and Lianas.The rainforest is filled with loads of plants and animals those are just some of the plants and animals located in the rainforest.
After my research, I have found that the tropical rainforest is very important because they help maintain global weather and rain patterns. Tropical rainforests are also warm all year round, its temperature barely changes from day to night. The tropical rainforest is pretty wet from all that rain and has high humidity. The vegetation in a rainforest is very green with very different heights. There are three major layers of vegetation. The first and top layer is called the canopy, it is made up of large trees , the second layer is the understory, it is made up of vines, smaller trees, and ferns, the third and bottom layer is called the floor, it is covered with wet leaves and leaf litter. Many famous mountains and rivers are found in the rainforest, such as, Mount Kilimanjaro, Amazon river, and Angel Falls. Heavy vegetation causes the rain to take up to ten minutes to reach the ground.
There are many ecosystems that subsist on Earth. For example, one paramount ecosystem is the tropical rainforest. The tropical rainforest is a prominent biome as it receives an abundant and sufficient amount of showers and rain on a daily. In additament, there are additionally several animals that optically discern the tropical rainforest as their domicile, all ranging from mammals to amphibians to arachnids, to reptiles, to plants and many more. One categorial tropical rain forest would be the Amazon rainforest as it is the most immensely colossal forest that grows in the tropical basin of the Amazon river. Covering a staggering 1.4 billion acres, the Amazon rainforest is home to about a moiety of the world’s entire animal species and around
One of the biggest Rainforest in the ecosystem is located In Amazon River Basin in South America. A plant that helps the rainforest is the pitcher plant. Some abiotic factors that help the ecosystem survive is water, sunlight, oxygen, soil and the temperature of the ecosystem . The ecosystem increased by soil stability , and a regulated climate. This picture shows the food chamber.
The Amazon rainforest is the largest rainforest in the world, covering one billion acres. The rainforest is predominately in Brazil, but also borders the countries of Peru, Columbia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. The unique biosphere of the Amazon is a result of millions of years of evolution. The Amazon is a damp and wet climate; with so much rain the soils of the Amazon are thin, yet, they grow the some of the tallest trees on earth. In some parts of the rainforest, sandy soils are found, which have evolved through erosion over millions of years. The soils of the Amazon are the foundation of the rainforest and, although these soils have lost their mineral content and fertility, rich and lush rainforests grow on them (WWF, 2013). The atmosphere of the Amazon allows for organic matter to decompose expeditiously, creating high nutrient and fertile topsoil. However, organisms reabsorb these new nutrients as quickly as they were formed. The Amazon is home to one in every ten animals on Earth, and plays a vital role in regulating the global climate. Soy has contributed to deforestation and soil erosion in the Brazilian Amazon (The Growth of Soy, 2014). There is a delicate balance throughout the Amazon; this equilibrium allows for one of the most diverse ecosystems on Earth to strive, yet, it is in jeopardy due to human impacts such as the cultivation of soybean monoculture. It is estimated in another 50 years, 40% of the Amazon will have
To refer to the Amazon Rainforest as huge would be an understatement. The Amazon comprises 1.4 billion acres of land that make 54 percent out of all the remaining tropical rainforests on earth. In fact, in a parallel world, if the Amazon were a nation, it would be the ninth biggest nation on earth. As of June 2011, the Amazon's size and assorted diversity made it a contender for one of the New Seven Wonders of the World by the Seven Wonders of the World Foundation.