The Amazon Rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world. The majority of the rainforest is sited in Brazil with 60% of the rainforest contained there. It is also spread throughout other nations in South America such as Peru‚ Columbia‚ Venezuela‚ Ecuador‚ Bolivia‚ Guyana‚ Suriname‚ and French Guiana. (See Figure 1) Land clearing has become a major contributing factor in the destruction of Amazon Forest and the development of its land. This is predominantly due to human activities which
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like without the Amazon rainforest? The Amazon covers forty percent of South America and produces twenty percent of the Earth’s oxygen. It holds over ten million species of animals and over forty thousand different types of plants. This is the most biodiverse rainforest on the planet. It hold everything from the Brazilin Wandering Spider to the Green Anaconda. The Amazon Rainforest holds more than just animals and plants‚ it also holds ancient Indian tribes that call the rainforest their home. These
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What is happening to the Amazon Region? The Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world which covers over five and half a million square kilometers. Over half of the Amazon is located in Brazil but also in South American countries; Peru‚ Venezuela‚ Ecuador‚ Colombia‚ Guyana‚ Bolivia and Suriname. (Science Kids‚ 2013). During the past 40 years‚ 20% of the Amazon rainforest has been cut down‚ this percentage could be higher but was not put in account due to logging.this causes
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it occurs in is the Amazon Rainforest. The Amazon Rainforest is a unique habitat filled with wildlife. With its tropical weather‚ the Amazon has an abundance amount of rain per year. In addition to that‚ this forest has a vast variety of animals and plants. All of these add to the water vapor going into the air. WIth all these vast variety of animals and plants‚ there is probably a lot of evaporation going on. The Amazon Rainforest is one of a variety of tropical rainforests. It is normal for tropical
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The Amazon Rainforest is located in Brazil. It is famous for it’s Amazon River‚ which is the second largest river in the world behind the Nile River. But the main point about this essay is deforestation. Right at this moment the Amazon Rainforest is losing lots of things like it’s fine trees and the wildlife because group of people are making their living using the resources of the Amazon. I will talk about six groups in the Amazon Rainforest. Their names are Native Amazonians‚ Rubber Tappers‚ Loggers
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War‚ 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
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The Amazon Rainforest‚ and Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world. Located in South America‚ encompassing parts of Peru‚ Ecuador‚ Colombia‚ Venezuela‚ Guyana‚ Suriname‚ French Guiana‚ Bolivia and much of Brazil. The Amazon‚ like the rest of the forests‚ has a great variety of fauna‚ flora and mineral deposits. All are important for balance‚ both climate and ecological. The Amazon forest is developed around the Amazon River and its watershed. The title of "lungs of the planet" that holds the
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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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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 in Bolivian cleared lands
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Located in South America‚ the Amazon rainforest covers a span of about 3.5 million square miles in several different countries‚ making it the world’s largest rainforest. Rainforests are characterized by the heavy rainfall they receive which is a minimum of six and a half feet a year. Also‚ they can either be tropical or temperate‚ and they are found on nearly every continent‚ not including Antarctica. They are also composed of several vertical layers. The canopy‚ the uppermost layer‚ is the “tops
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