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What is the purpose for conserving rainforests?
Conserving rainforests is important as rainforests produce over 28% of the worlds oxygen through a process called, respiration. Rainforests are also home to thousands of different plant, animal, insect and fungi species.
What fraction of the world's plant species are found in rainforest?
Rainforests are some of the world's most ancient and complex ecosystems. They cover a mere 2% of the Earth, yet more than half of all plant and animal species live there. The rainforest is home to creatures as famous as the jaguar and poison dart frog, as well as lesser-known and even unidentified species.there are over 20% of the worlds plants species in rainforests but also contain some of the worlds most rarest animal species as i said above.Answer came from http://www.therainforestsite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=4
What does the tropical rainforest benefit?
Tropical Rainforests benefit many things. For example, a tropical rainforest benefits people, as the Amazon Basin produces 1/5 of the worlds fresh water and 20% of the worlds oxygen. Tropical Rainforests also contain plants with medicinal values, and some plants have been declared anti-cancerous and is used to battle cancer. The rainforests also produce many important products such as coffee, timber and cocoa. It is also home to more than 50,000 species of animals, insects and plants.
Which biome has half of the worlds species?
Rainforests are the type of biome that has half of the worldâ??s species. They also produce nearly half of the worldâ??s oxygen.
What can you find in the Amazon?
over half of the worlds animal and plant species
What percent of animals live in the rain forest?
Rainforests are home to two-thirds of all the living animal and plant species on Earth. It has been estimated that many hundreds of millions of species of plants, insects and microorganisms are still undiscovered. Tropical rainforests have been calle the "jewels of the Earth," and the "world's largest pharmacy," because of the large number of natural medicines discovered there. Rainforests also supply 28% of the worlds oxygen, processing it through photosynthesis from carbon dioxide.
How many of the plants and animals on earth live in the rainforests?
Well there are uncountable species in the rainforest because scientist haven't discovered and/or identified all the species in the rainforest although there are new species discovered everyday!
Why do you think rain forests are home to half of the worlds species?
Rainforests have the distinction of having almost half of the worlds species because of its' ability to carry as many as five levels in its ecosystem. Most can carry 2-4. Until these areas are logged and farmed, they will remain so.
What is the worlds 2nd largest land animal?
The Asian elephant. Only the African species is larger.
The worlds largest animal?
Worlds largest animal: Blue Whale
Mexico has the worlds highest number of species of what kind of animal?
Mexico ranks first in biodiversity in reptiles with 707 known species, second in mammals with 438 species, fourth in amphibians with 290 species, and fourth in flora, with 26,000 different species.
What do you get when you mix an aardvark and a platypus?
You cannot intermix species which are literally worlds and classifications apart.
