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Amazon Rainforest
Located mainly in Brazil, Peru and Colombia, the Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world. The Amazon covers 1.4 billion acres and boasts the most diverse wildlife in the world as well. Questions about the Amazon rainforest can be found here.
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How old is the Amazon rainforest?
The Amazon rainforest began forming some 9.9 million years ago.
what is the rainforest soil like ?
How hot is it in the Amazon rainforest?
the rainforest is a cool temperature, whereas many people think it is warm. the temperature usually falls between 9-19 degrees. with all the rain it makes the temperature cooler and causes a wind.
3 layers of the Amazon rainforest?
These strata differ in many ways, including temperature, the amount of sunlight that they receive, the wetness of the environment, and the amount and types of life forms living in it.
EMERGENTS
The emergents consist of the tops of the tallest trees, which are much higher than the average canopy height (ranging up to 270 feet or 81 m). It houses many birds (like the scarlet macaw), insects, and more.
CANOPY
The canopy is the name given to the upper parts of the trees (about 65 to 130 feet or 20 to 40 m tall). This leafy environment is full of life: insects, arachnids, many birds (like the keel-billed toucan, the scarlet macaw, the cuckoo, and the hornbill), mammals (like the howler monkey, which is the second-loudest animal in the world, and the orangutan), reptiles (like snakes and lizards), and others. Plants in the canopy include thick, snake-like vines and epiphytes ("air plants") like mosses, lichens, and orchids (which grow on trees).
UNDERSTORY
The understory is a dark, cool environment that is under the leaves but over the ground. Most of the understory of a rainforest has so little light that plant growth is limited. There are short, leafy, mostly non-flowering shrubs, small trees, ferns, and vines (lianas) that have adapted to filtered light and poor soil. Some of these plants include ferns, palms, philodendrons, and heliconias. Animals in the understory include insects (like beetles and bees), arachnids, snakes, lizards, and small mammals (like the kinkajou) that live on and in tree bark. Some birds (like antbirds) live and nest within tree recesses and eat the abundant insects. Some larger animals, like jaguars, spend a lot of time on branches in the understory, surveying the area, looking for prey.
Strata of Tropical Rainforests - Printout
Label the strata (layers) of the tropical rainforest.
Answers FOREST FLOOR
The floor of the forest is teeming with animal life, especially insects and arachnids (like tarantulas). The largest animals in the rainforest generally live here, including gorillas, anteaters, wild boars, tapirs, jaguars, and people.
What is the soil in the Amazon rainforest like?
Soil in the tropical rainforest's is very nutrient poor. The topsoil is only one to two inches (2.5 to 5 centimeters) deep. The only reason plant life is so lush is because the plants store the nutrients in themselves rather than getting them from the soil. When plants decay, other growing plants tap the nutrients from the dead matter and reuse nutrients left over from that plant. This is why farmers can only use the rainforest's soil for one or two years after they clear cut it, before all nutrients are stripped from the soil.The reason the soil so infertile is because it is more than 100 million years old, and has taken a beating from the elements. After time, rain washes minerals out of the soil, leaving it more acidic and nutrient poor. Soil exposed to the heat and condensed sunlight turns it into red clay. Other soils just cannot deal with minerals, and turn it into compounds useless to plants. There are some fertile patches of soil in the rainforest's, but they are scattered throughout the thick vegetation.
How does the Amazon rainforest help us?
The amazon rainforest hold 70% of the world plants that have anticancer properties witch means if you have cancer the cure you could get would possibly be from the rainforest .
Also lots of tribes - that have never had contact with the outside world live there and animals-that can only survive in the rainforest!
Is the land flat in the Amazon rainforest?
Yes, the land is flat in the amazon Rainforest. There are hardly any hills and it is low lying land. The land is covered by plants and is home to insects and small mammals. The vegetation hardly gets any sunshine on ground level.
What is in the Amazon rainforest?
A rain forest is simply a forest that has lots and lots of rain each year (+70in a year) The Amazon rain forest in particular is very large it covers a good portion of South America (1.4 billion acres). It calls 9 different countries home and is home to thousands of types of trees and animals. The climate is warm (about 79* F) and humid.
What are some Abiotic characteristics of the amazon rainforest?
some main abiotic factors of the Amazon rainforest are:
bacteria
trees
water
oxygen
moss
fungi
- I_do_know_it_all
^ You don't know it all because trees, bacteria, moss, and fungi are all biotic factors.
^All of the abiotic factors of all biomes are water and sunlight, climate, weather and precipitation.
What is the average rainfall in the rainforest?
i dont have a clue in the world even though i am a biologist studying rain forests hehehehehe
ps why would i know when i am trying to find the answer myself
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How big is the Amazon rainforest compared to Wales?
The area, also known as Amazonia or the Amazon Basin encompasses seven million kilometers (1.2 billion acres), though the forest itself occupies some 5.5 million kilometers, located within eight nations: Brazil (with 60 percent of the rainforest), Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.
Amazon Rainforest is also known as the Amazon Basin. Amazon constitutes half of the total rainforest of the earth. It occupies the northern part of the South America. It constitutes eight nations, some of which includes Brazil, Peru, Ecuador and other neighbouring nations. It has a total area which extends more than 1.6 million sq miles.
How many animals in amazon rainforest?
Countless. Literally. There are still species in there that mankind hasn't discovered yet. However, due to the fact that it's being cut down at a rapid pace, the animal count is decreasing. On the contrary, there are still many animals - more than we can imagine.
What are the three tribes in the amazon rainforest?
In northwest of the Amazon rainforest in areas located in Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela the tribes that are found are: Baniwa, Kuripako, Dow, Hupda, Nadöb, Yuhupde, Baré, Warekena, Arapaso, Bará, Barasana, Desana, Karapanã, Kubeo, Makuna, Mirity-tapuya, Pira-tapuya, Siriano, Tariana, Tukano, Tuyuca, Wanana, Tatuyo, Taiwano, Yuruti, Kakwa and Nukak.
In the Alto Xingu region in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso the tribes that are found are: Aweti, Kalapalo, Kamaiurá , Kuikuro, Matipu, Mehinako, Nahukuá, Trumai, Wauja, Yawalapiti, Ikpeng, Kaiabi, Suyá and Yudja.
the rain forests are hard and grueling especially in summer when it reaches up to 40 degrees Celsius.
It also is hard because the animals in the rain forest lose their homes each and every day.
What food grows in the Amazon rainforest?
There are bananas, nuts, cashews, avocados, mangoes, pineapples, coconuts, figs, oranges, lemons, grapefruit, bananas, salsa, guavas, kola nut (is used to flavour soft drinks) and tomatoes; vegetables including corn, potatoes, rice, winter squash and yams; spices like black pepper, cayenne, chocolate, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, eggplants, sugar cane, tumeric, coffee and vanilla and nuts and lots more!!!
What is the conflict in the Amazon Rainforest?
The Native Amazonians came to the Rainforest over 12,000 years ago. They believe the land that they arrived at first, is rightfully theirs. It has now more rapidly become hard for the Natives to continue there way of live because of the recent "modifications" of the rainforests. The rainforest first started being deforested when the capital of Brazil changed from he coastal city of Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia. Brazil's government made the decision to change the capital more inland for easier access. In the proccess of relocating, the rainforest had to be cut down to create space for the new city that would soon become very populated. As well as deforestation for land development, it is the job of loggers to cut down trees to use for products. Although there have been many reserved areas of the rainforest, the destruction is still a great problem. The government and Natives have trouble coming to agreements over the land.
Is the Amazon Basin in the Amazon Rainforest?
Yes it is ...it's the main part of the amazon rainforest.
What is the amount of rainfall in the Amazon?
Well it has finally come to me this day the 12th of June, that since it is a rainforest it must rain a lot.
What places do Chimpanzees live?
Nohkalikai Falls is the tallest WATER FALL in INDIA, its height of 335 metres (1100 ft).
The waterfall is located near Cherapunji, one of the wettest places on Earth.
