The Tropical Basin Of The Amazon Rainforest

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.

Rainforests are known to be critically important for human wellbeing and are often referred to as the lungs of the planet. This is because, rainforests not only absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen that all animals depend on for survival but due to the fact they also help stabilize climate, provide a home to many plants and animals, maintain the water cycle, protect the human population against flood, drought & erosion, and are a source for medicines and foods. Rainforest also happen to support tribal people and are known to be an interesting place to visit. Abiotic factors are referred to as non-living chemical and physical parts of the environment that affect living organisms and the functioning of ecosystems (Dictionary.com, 2017). Some examples of abiotic factors in the Amazon forest include water cycle, temperature and carbon cycle. Additionally, the living components of an ecosystem also referred to as the biotic factors (Dictionary.com, 2017) are elements of the Amazon forest. This includes the organisms living in the ecosystem and the present food chain. Altogether, these are factors and components that are seen in the Amazon forest, despite the deteriorating status of the rainforest due to human activities within the ecosystem. With these activities currently occurring, the amazon rainforest could potentially be eliminated if action is not taken.

Tropical rainforests are the Earth?s oldest, richest, most productive, and most complex living ecosystems. They are located throughout many of the world?s continents including South America, Africa, and Asia and are defined by a few specific factors. Their location must be within the regions of the tropics and they must receive between 4-8 meters of rain per year (compared to about 1-2 meters in the United States). These forests also have no ?seasonality?, which means that they lack a definite dry or cold season of slowed growth.

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.

Tropical Rainforest make up a total of 6% of all of earth’s land surface. Not surprisingly though, it produces 40% of all of earth’s oxygen. There are 4 levels to the tropical rainforest; emergent, upper canopy, understory, and forest floor. The rainforest received it’s name because of it’s self-watering system. Plants release water into the atmosphere through transpiration. This moisture usually has no place to go which creates a thick cloud cover over the rainforest causing the humid, hot, atmosphere. In the the rainforests are large rivers that branch off into smaller rivers that help to provide water for the entire forest.

The biome ecosystem of the rainforest is a wonderful place, full of animals, color, and life. It has the largest diversity of living organism and plants on earth, with rich biodiversity. The Rainforest supports about 50% of the plants and animal living on earth. The rainforest is located in a tropical region. This allows them to receives lots of sunlight, giving plants the energy they need and a wide variety of food for the organisms. The rainforest provides an abundance of sources of shelter, food, and hiding places for animals to grow and develop. The rainforest not only provides life for plants and animals but is also provides life to human beings like us. The rainforest plays many roles in our life. Which includes absorbing the carbon dioxide, and producing

I decided to do my presentation on biomes but not just any biome, I decided on the Tropical Rainforest. The tropical rainforest biome is an ecosystem that covers 6 percent of the earth. They are found all over the earth but the majority lie in South America. Tropical rainforests are defined by their hot and wet climate. The average temperature in this area is around 75 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit. These areas often get up to 12 hours of sunlight due to being located on the Earths equator. Obviously, since it’s called a rainforest, it gets a lot of rain. Most rainforests get up to 100 inches of rain annually. Because of this warm, wet climate, the rainforest is an ideal habitat for a wide range fauna and flora. Some examples of the fauna that live

Since the start of the 1970s, an area of the rainforest the size of California has been lost. In the Brazilian Amazon three million acres were lost between 2007 and 2008 (Amazon Rainforest). This is due to the illegal logging, soy plantations, cattle ranching, and other human actives. The forest is being threatened and so is everything that depends on it.

From the outside, Ecuador looks like a prosperous country. Its top exports include shrimp and oil, and it is the number one producer of bananas in the world. If you walked into a local market, you would be overcome with the variety of foods, colors, and smells. According to Britannica, Ecuador is also among the most diverse countries in the world, being one of nine countries to house the Amazonian Rainforest, as well as two deserts and four mountain ranges. While this country, 400 square miles smaller than the U.S. state of Nevada, seems to face little difficulty, it is the most food insecure and fifth most corrupt country in South America according to the Food Security Index and Transparency Intl. surveys in 2015. The problem lies buried six

The tropical Rainforest is a forest of tall trees in an area of warmth during the whole year. On average, 125 – 660 cm of rain falls annually. Rain forests belong to the wet climate group. The temperature inside a rainforest will more than likely not get over 34 degrees, or drop below 20 degrees. Humidity in the tropical areas is in the high 70’s and low 80’s. Almost all rainforests are close to the equator if not through the equator. Rainforests now only cover less than 6% of Earths surface area. This causing deforestation and endangering species towards extinction. Rainforests that are tropical produce more than 40% of the oxygen on Earth. A rainforest has the most unique trees than any area other biome in the world. Scientists have discovered

Although dams can have negative outcomes, they are not the only projects with destructive effects. Roads and highways also produce unintentional harm. In the 1970s, when Amazonian deforestation first began, the Brazilian government believed it should take advantage of the rainforest. To allow easier access into the rainforest, the government built the Trans-Amazonian Highway (“Tropical”). This accessibility did not just allow easy entry for the official loggers, the highway also created the opportunity for illegal loggers to enter. Now that Brazil’s economy has deteriorated, in order to gain profits again, their government and independent companies are cutting trees down at a faster pace (Phillips, “Brazil’s New”). Not only are legal loggers

The Amazon forest is a vast region that occupies through eight developing countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, an overseas territory of France. This landscape contains 1.4 billion acres of dense forests, half of the planet's tropical forests, 4,100 miles of winding rivers. The Brazilian Amazon is home to 40% of the world's tropical forest and one of the most bio diverse regions on the planet. About 54% of the area is under environmental protection, and in the past five years, stricter controls and better compliance have driven deforestation rates down to a historical low. The Amazon contains millions of different species, most of them still undescribed and unknown. It is one of Earth's last refuges for many types of animals, like jaguars, harpy eagles and pink dolphins, and it is home to thousands of birds and butterflies. The diversity of the region is outstanding. More than 30 million people, including many

The Amazon, is the world's largest rainforest. It’s the world's most dominant rainforest in geographic, and variant ways. For example, it is larger than the Congo Basin and Indonesia — combined. The “Basin” of this massive landscape compares to the size of the forty-eight contiguous United States; it covers around 40 percent of the South American continent. Almost two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest is located in Brazil. It also is thought to have 2.5 million species of insects. More than half the species that inhabit the mighty ecosystem of the Amazon rainforest are thought to live in the canopy.

The Amazon basin is critical point of interest due to the role it plays in influencing the precipitation and carbon cycles at a global and regional scale. (Cox et al., 2008) Scientists have conducted climate models and predicted global warmer and drier conditions on Earth by the end of the 21rst century. (Olivares et al 2015) Warmer and drier conditions will affect ecosystems and the plants and animals within it due to high temperature and water stress. High temperatures in the tropical Atlantic causes rainfall to decrease across the Amazon, making areas susceptible to drought and forest fires. (http://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/) Plants in the Amazon have certain tolerance to heat and water availability, if the conditions of their environment

Biodiversity is life, it heals us as more than 70,000 plant and trees species on earth are used in medicine. It gives us shelter, without wood we couldn't build houses, furniture or tools. Biodiversity provides us with food and clothes.