The rainforest is a very tropical region. It is full of water and many exotic plants and animals. This making the climate very humid and clearly rainy. Though the rainforest is next to the equator making it very hot, it receives about 80 inches of rain per year. Though with the rain, on average the rainforest starts around 80 degrees and rises throughout the day. These factors, the rain and high temperatures, are what makes the rainforest so humid. They’re located in a few different continents. Them being, Africa around Madagascar and scattered islands, Australia near New Guinea and other Pacific Islands as well as, Asia, Southeast Asia near Indomalayan, India and, Sri Lanka, in South America Neotropical and lastly, in West Africa . This placing …show more content…
Covering almost 2% of Earth, the rainforest is home to around 50% of Earth's plants and animals. The most common animals are, jaguars, many different types of monkeys like apes, spider monkeys, orangutans and so on, as well as multiple types of butterflies like the, blue morpho, monarch butterflies. Other common animals in a tropical rainforest is capybara, toco toucan, anaconda, python, poisonous dart frog as well as many others. Then to go along with all these consumers, there has to be producers.The common producers that you could find in a tropical rainforest is, banana trees, cocoa trees, orchids, victoria amazonica lilly pads, fig trees, palm trees, and many, many more. And with all these producers and consumers, there is definitely many symbiotic relationships in the rainforest. Most of the symbiotic relationships are commensalism and mutualism. I say mutualism because for example, when a monkey goes and gets banas frem and banana tree, the monkey is benefiting by getting the food it needs. Then when the monkey is done with the banana they throw it back to the forest where then it is decomposed into the ground to make fertile soil so more banana trees can
The Redwood National forest in California is home to some of the tallest trees in the world. People from all over travel to see the beauty of these hundred year old redwood trees. These trees The park was established in 1968 and is a national and state park. Since the park has been established there has been around a 100,000 increase in tourists each year. The park consists of 131,983 acres of earthquake prone land in the northern part of California, just below the. The climate of the Redwood National forest varies from mild with high humidity and even temperatures, this climate is perfect for the redwood trees, to the more harsh, windy climates near the ocean. The biome is mainly temperate coniferous forest with mixes of redwood and evergreen
The Proboscis Monkey is a mammal that is only found in a relatively small amount of area in the world. It is a odd looking animal known most for its gargantuan nose that hangs over its mouth. The Proboscis Monkey is well adapted to living in the rainforest, but when put in other biomes, it would have a rough time surviving. The only way it would be able to live in a new biome is it would have to adapt to its surroundings. If the Proboscis Monkey was somehow relocated to the Savannah, the Proboscis Monkey would have to undergo many different adaptations in order to survive in their new biome.
The beautiful Amazon rainforest “covers a vast area of more than two and one-half million square kilometers” (The Amazon: Its Developers, Destroyers). It is home to a wide variety of plants and animals, not found anywhere else in the world. Scientists believe that there are still many yet to be found. The Amazon is also home to many tribes who have been there for a long time.
The Tropical Savanna has a climate that is wet and dry, it has a unique vegetation and has lots of organisms living there. The tropical Savanna has an average temperature at 64 o and precipitation averages at 30 to 50 inches. The tropical Savanna has a dry season for at least five months of the year. Because of the conditions in the tropical Savanna, organisms like the North African ostrich and African baobab tree must be well adapted to survive in their natural habitat.
This rainforest is also a great ‘carbon sink’. It has many photosynthesis plants and this allows the control of carbon dioxide (CO2). The plants take in the CO2 from the atmosphere and return oxygen (O2). b) Logging has impacted this ecosystem. There are trees that are hundreds of years old and their timber is being pushed to be sold for high prices.
One of the requirements of the class was to read the book entitled Wisdom from a Rainforest: The Spiritual Journey of an Anthropologist by Stuart A Schlegel. The book was first published in 1999, and it was about the author’s experiences and his own personal transformation while staying with the Teduray society. Through reading the book, the professor wanted to expose his students to anthropological studies and reflect on how different concepts and theories that were previously discussed could be related to the material. “This book is a love story”. As the opening line of the book, it tells a lot of how the author is still in admiration with the now extinct tribe in Mindanao.
Sixteen percent of the E arh’s land is rainforess. The rainfores houses all sors of differen ype s of life. Both plants and animals thrive in the rainforest ’s climate . So many different species of plants and animals live in the rainforests that it is impossible to know all of them. The rainforests can be a mystery , and part of that mystery is found in the ir lost civilizations. While the rainforest can hide the evidence of these civilizati ons, humans have ways to uncover them. Whether it is with technology or being uncovered by deforestation, many lost civilizations have already
Tropical rainforests which is located between tropic of Capricorn and tropic of Cancer covered 12% of land surface few thousand years ago. However, today they o...
Almost half of the world's species of plants, animals and microorganisms will be destroyed or severely threatened over the next quarter century due to rainforest deforestation.
The rainforest is full of forests and trees, dripping with water, hence the name.There are swampy parts and there are very few plants that can survive under the canopy layer. The rainforest can be found in between the tropic of Capricorn and the tropic of Cancer. It appears only on 6% of the Earth’s surface and around the equator. The largest rainforest today is the Amazon Rainforest is 2.1 million miles and would rank the 9th if it was a country. There is no fertile soil because it is washed out with rain. The first layer is the ground layer and is filled with bugs and a few plants. Next comes the lower layer and then the understory. Following is the canopy and that is which most lives thrives. It can release about 200 gallons of water a year. Then the emergent layer is where the sunlight is the most.
A rainforest is an area of high, mostly evergreen trees with a high amount of rainfall. The biome is the earth’s oldest living ecosystem, being incredibly complex and diverse. The importance of the rainforest, is the huge biodiversity of the place due to the 80 – 90% of species that can be found there, even when it only covers 6% of the Earth’s surface. It is also often called the lungs of the planet, by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen upon which many species depend on. Rainforests also help stabilize the world’s climate and maintain the water cycle by producing rainfall all around the planet. Every year humans are cutting down more and more rainforest all around the globe. The reasons for this deforestation are to have grazing land for cattle, contraction of roads, extraction of energy and minerals and many more. Yet this report will focus on the monoculture of rubber tree plantations on previous rainforest land.
Tropical rainforests are ecological systems that comprise of a wide variety of trees and animals. Most of these ecosystems exist within the tropics. The climatic condition of these regions is temperate which receives an adequate amount of rainfall and so the area is wet. These rainforests cause the hot and humid climate as they retain the heat as well as attract rain. However, due to the increasing population and industrialization, deforestation is occurring throughout the world. The clearing of trees has led to severe climatic change, soil erosion, and loss of indigenous tree and animal species.
The role of rainforests in the water cycle is to add water to the atmosphere through the process of transpiration (where they release water from their leaves during photosynthesis). This moisture contributes to the formation of rain clouds which release the water back on the rainforest. In the Amazon, 50-80% of moisture remains in the ecosystem's water cycle.
The Human Impact on Rainforests Human Impact on Rainforest is it a necessity? Rainforest are the beautiful gift of Mother Nature. It consists of the most magnificent species and plants in the world. 4.2% of the world’s animals live in the rainforest. This statistic it self shows how bad it would be to destroy such essential part of the worlds biodiversity.
who are the amazonians, what do they do, where do they live? the native amazonians also knowns as indigenous people, they live in a beautiful rain forest called the amazon rain forest. The rainforest is known for being the biggest at 2.124 million miles, and rubber trees, hardwood form trees, and for Native Amazonians. The amazonians live in the rain forest. they have lived there for over 12,000 years. they hunt and grow crops in the rainforest. There are 400 indigenous tribes in the Amazon rain forest, only about 50 tribes have had no contact with the outside world. the tribe villages are usually around some type of body of water. a majority of amazonians live in the cities and towns. there are different roles to do in the village. the women cook, household chores, taking care of the