Rainforests In The Amazon Rainforest

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There are many rainforests in the world but one of the biggest one is the Amazon rainforest, which is located in the northern half of South America and lies in the countries of Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia. The Amazon also lies in between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer. The size of the Amazon resembles the size of the United States from the Atlantic Ocean to the Rocky Mountains. Since this rain forest lies next to the Equator, the climate is warm and humid. The average temperature is in between sixty-eight to ninety- three degrees. The Amazon has two seasons but each one is six months each. They are classified as the wet season and the dry season. The wet season occurs between December to May and the dry season occurs between June to November. The average rainfall is fifty to two hundred and sixty inches per year. The forest floor only gets up to two to five percent of sunlight since the canopy blocks the sunlight from getting to the forest floor. The Amazon rain forest got the nickname, the world’s pharmacy, because many medicines have been found in the tree bark, the tree’s leaves, and other parts of the trees.
Bacteria and fungi are the most common decomposers in a rainforest and can be found in many different ecosystems. The three common producers in the Amazon rain forest are orchids, bengal bamboo, and the banana tree. Bacteria and fungi recycle dead material back into the soil so it can be reused. If the bacteria and fungi in an environment didn’t recycle all the dead material then Earth would be full of remains of dead plants and animals. Orchids, one of the three producers, can be found in the Amazon rainforest. Orchids can be found in many different colors and mostly grow on...

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...food web or food chain that is made up of producers, herbivores, consumers, and omnivores. Food webs show the connections animals have with each other on who eats whom. The Amazon has many species of animals that are all connected somehow but using only a small handful of producers and consumers can make it easier to understand and show how they are connected in some way. A macaw and a fruit bat eat orchids but the emerald tree boa will soon eat macaw and the fruit bat. Across the Amazon, a spider monkey can be eating from a banana tree or the jaguar will eat the Bengal bamboo then the spider monkey. Soon the jaguar can be patiently waiting for the next victim, which will be a parrot that is eating off the same banana tree, as the spider monkey was not long ago. Every animal is connected somehow and creating a food web is the best way to show and easy to understand.

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