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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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What are tropical rainforests?

A tropical rainforest is a cluster of trees, usually all lush, and green, in a tropical climate, which means the vegetation gets its fair share of torrential showers, and heat. There are currently 46,000 rainforests left.

What is conventional rainfall?

Convectional rainfall is when the sun heats the ground and hot air rises, the hot air then cools down and forms clouds then it rains

How many hectares are there in the Amazon?

The Amazon rain forest covers an area of 550 million hectares. The area drained by the river, the Amazon Basin is 705 million hectares.

Does it flood in the rainforest?

It does not flood often as most rainforests drain quite well into major rivers, but there are times that rainfall is so great that the rivers expand greatly in width to accommodate the water. This would be flooding.

What continent is the home of the Amazon Rainforest and the driest spot in the world?

That would be South America. The Amazon Rainforest is in Brazil and parts of northern Peru. The Atacama Desert is in Chile and the southern part of Peru.

What is a tropical rainforest?

The tropical rain forest is a forest of tall trees in a region of year-round warmth. An average of 50 to 260 inches (125 to 660 cm.) of rain falls yearly.

Rain forests belong to the tropical wet climate group. The temperature in a rain forest rarely gets higher than 93 °F (34 °C) or drops below 68 °F (20 °C); average humidity is between 77 and 88%; rainfall is often more than 100 inches a year

Are leaves producers?

Leaves are not considered producers because they are d-e-a-d okay they are dead!

How are a canopy and floor the same?

No. They are not. A floor is what you walk on. Or the ground in a forest. A canopy is a temporary ceiling. Or in nature, the tree tops that form a "roof".

How have people had a negative effect on the Amazon rainforest?

People have been cutting down a lot of trees in the Amazon rainforest and it's slowly beginning to decrease its area.

Where do blue birds live?

Blue birds live all over the world except for in some types of the world

Who were the Amazons?

Amazons (Androktones): Race of warrior women in Greek mythology that lived in Scythia, near the Black Sea, or in Pontus, in Asia Minor. The Amazons were reputed to cut off or burn off their right breast to facilitate the use of the javelin and bow, their principle weapons, and they did most of their fighting on horseback. They also carried with them a crescent-shaped shield, and they worshipped Artemis, the virgin goddess of the hunt. To reproduce they took men deemed suitable from neighboring societies and mated with them in the forest. Female offspring were raised to be warriors while males were killed, blinded, or crippled. In the instances where the lives of the male offspring were spared, they would be used by the Amazons as a source of male seed for the future. The Amazons would also take male prisoners-of-war as sex slaves, killing them when their purposefulness expired or keeping them alive as a future source of male seed. _______________________________________________________ Archaeological discoveries in the early 2000's indicate that the Amazons may not have been as mythological as previously thought. Graves of warriors have been discovered, with swords, daggers, javelins, bows, and arrows, and all of the skeletons found have been female. The graves were discovered near the Black Sea, close to where the Greek historian Herodotus placed the Amazons, but they date to the Fifth Century AD, about a thousand years after Herodotus. It is not known if these female warriors were the legendary Amazons or not.

Is a cheater in the Amazon rainforest?

yes it's the fastest animal in the world(you probably already know that !)

What kind of abiotic and biotic resources do leafcutter ants need?

The resources that any species needs are far too many to list in detail. After reading the following, it will probably do you good to try to add new items to the list yourself.

1: Abiotic resources would include water, air, sunlight (if you think that ants do not need sunlight, ask yourself why leafcutter ants do not occur in caves or even in deep valleys where the sun does not shine), suitable soil, (bear in mind that soil is only partly abiotic), temperature and climate in general (ask yourself how many reasons there are why leafcutter ants occur only in the tropics) and nutrient minerals such as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, to mention just three.

2: Biotic resources would include enough food plants for the ants to gather, and enough of the right kinds of fungi to digest their collected leaves and convert them into suitable food for the ants. It also might include enough natural enemies to keep the natural enemies of the ants under control. Ants can't spend all their time fighting anteaters and Phorid flies.

Now you try to add a few to those 2 lists.

Why are coconut trees found in coastal areas?

because they stink so much they need the Indonesia/West Pacific

Do Amazonian tribes have rulers?

Cacique is a term that the Portuguese and Spanish used at the time of the Great Maritime Navigation and Discovery (XV and XVI) to refer to the Indian chiefs of the tribes of America. This term originates from the Arawak of Haiti (cachique) and was adapted by the Spaniards, turning cacique.

In Brazil, each Indian nation uses a specific term to refer to political leader. Among the Tupi Indians, for example, terms are used murumuxaua, and tabixaba tuxaua. Since the Guaraní use the term more mburovixá.

What cats live in the Amazon Rainforest?

jaguar and ocelot

Some add panther to this list, but that is a misnomer. Panthers can be one of many cats, including the jaguar, in the Panthera genus. Ocelots are in the Leopardus genus and should not be confused with the leopard, which are in the Panthera genus. Leopards are not indigenous to South America.

What are facts about the Daintree Rainforest?

  • The Daintree Rainforest is the largest rainforest in Australia, covering an area of about 1,200 square kilometres.
  • The Daintree Rainforest was added to the World Heritage List in 1988.
  • About 30% of Australia's reptile, marsupial and frog species, 65% of the country's bat and butterfly species, and 20% of Australia's native bird species can be found within the Daintree.
  • It is located north of Cairns in far north Queensland.
  • The Daintree Rainforest was named after the nineteenth-century Australian geologist and photographer, Richard Daintree.