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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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Do chimpanzees live in the Amazon rainforest?

Chimpanzees do NOT live in the Amazonian rainforests. They are native to Africa not South America. In the wild they are only found in sub Saharan Africa, with large populations in the central and western countries such as Gabon, DRC, Guinea, Sierra Leone and the CAR. Smaller population occur as far east as Kenya and Tanzania and as far north as Chad. Habitats rage from dense rain forest to wooded savanna.

What is the coldest weather recorded in the amazon rainforest?

The lowest temperature ever recorded in the Amazon rainforest was about 34 degrees Fahrenheit. The average low during a given year is about 55 degrees Fahrenheit and the average high annually is about 80 degrees Fahrenheit.

What percent of the worlds bird species lives in the Amazon Rainforest?

Twenty percent of the world's bird species live in the Amazon rainforest.

Do cougars live in the Amazon rainforest?

Yes, the natural habitat of cougars (or pumas, mountain lions, panthers, etc. as they are also known) extends from the Yukon in Canada to the southern Andes in South America, but their range has been reduced due to hunting and destruction of their environment

According to different sites, the jaguar and the ocelot are the two cats that roam through the Amazon Rainforest.

Sustainable development in the Amazon rainforest?

The problems are that each year more and more foresting is going on in this area and they think at this rate the whole Brazilian forest could be gone by the 21st century

Which countries are covered by the amazon rain forest?

Brazil

France

Suriname

Guyana

Venezuela

Colombia

Ecuador

Peru

Bolivia

What are the major exports of the Amazon Rainforest?

Natural rubber, brazil nuts, Guarana (small berry), Acai (fruit), minerals like iorn,diamonds and other less precious jems, wood (hundreds of trees), mecidnal plants.

How can you help save the Amazon rainforest?

  • To help save the rainforest, simply live in a way which doesn’t hurt the environment. Don’t buy tropical woods, such as mahogany, teak, and many others. Instead, look for American woods suck as oak, cherry, walnut, and beech.
  • Use recycled products. Buying recycled paper prevents more of the Amazon’s trees from being cut down. Plastic and glass can be recycled to prevent the use of additional land being for landfills.
  • To save the Amazon rainforest you can reduce your paper and wood consumption. Logging companies are cutting down some of the most endangered forests on the planet to make wood and paper products. You can reduce your usage of paper and wood by using both sides of each piece of paper, using your own cloth bags at the grocery store and avoiding disposable paper plates and cups.
  • Another way you can help save the amazon rainforest is reducing your beef consumption. This is helpful because the main cause for Amazon rainforest deforestation is clearing forest area for cattle pasture. Reducing your consumption of beef will reduce demand for it, cutting back on pressure to clear more forests for cattle.
  • Reducing your oil consumption is also helpful in causing less damage to the Amazon rainforest. The burning of oil, gas, and coal is the primary cause of climate change, a trend that is threatening the stability of the global climate. In addition, oil exploration projects lead to toxic pollution and massive deforestation, posing a threat to pristine ecosystems and indigenous cultures worldwide.

How can you stop the Amazon Rainforest from turning into a wasteland?

  • Teach others about the importance of the environment and how they can help save rainforests.
  • Restore damaged ecosystems by planting trees on land where forests have been cut down.
  • Encourage people to live in a way that doesn't hurt the environment.
  • Establish parks to protect rainforests and wildlife.
  • Support companies that operate in ways that minimize damage to the environment. Also known as 'TREES'

Do orangutans live in the Amazon rain rainforest?

Orangs live in Asia. The Amazon is in South America.

So Orangs don't live in the Amazon rainforest.

Why do people mine in the amazon rainforest?

The reason is that it is very rich in all kinds of goods, such as gold and diamond, and also there is minerals and resources that we use for fuel.

How does logging affect the amazon rainforest?

Loggers

They want to continue clearing the rainforest. Also, they want to keep cutting trees to make furiniture for people.

What do leopards eat in the Amazon Rainforest?

no. The Amazon rain forest is in South America. Lions live in Africa.

Amazon rainforest are also known as?

It's Selva, which is in my social studies book

Why do anacondas live in the Amazon rainforest?

Anacondas tend to hunt in water. They require higher heat and humidity, and use trees as defense from possible predators. Anacondas can even be found in the swamps of Florida, which is very similar to the Amazon.

What country does the amazon belong to?

Many say Brazil, they are incorrect.

Ecuador owns the Amazon river, for they are "Pais Amazonico"

Translation: Amazon Country.

How do settlers affect the Amazon rainforest?

They cutn down the trees to make room for crops and such

What amphibians live in the Amazon rainforest?

There are many different kinds of species in the Amazon Rainforest. But most of those species are endangered because people are cutting down the trees in the rainforest for paper. And some animals homes are the trees and if they cut them down the animals will have no place to live and they will die.

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?

Strata of the Tropical Rainforests"Strata" means "layers." Scientists divide rainforests into different strata (or layers) for easy reference. Each of these layers is a very different environment and supports different life forms.

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.