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Rainforests
A region characterized by warm climates, lush plant life, and consistent rainfall with no dry season
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What is the rainforest home to?
tribes of people who use the rainforest for everything.There are more kinds of plants and animals in the rainforests than anywhere else on Earth. Over half of the millions of known species of plants and animals live in the rainforest. Many are found nowhere else it. is believed that 50% of the world's species of plants and animals are found in the rainforest. Amazingly, only cover 6 - 7% of the total land surface on Earth is covered by rainforest. On average, there are between 30 to 80 different species of trees per acre. There is also a wide variety of animal life found in the rainforest. Many of the animals have special adaptations that allow them to live in the tropical conditions, they could not survive outside of this ecosystem.
What layer of the tropical rainforest do most animals live in?
There are almost as many interesting websites about the rainforest and its populations of flora and fauna as there are ways of being interested in the rainforest, itself. Here are but two of them.
The first is blueplanetbiomes:
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rainforest.htm
The second is from Caltech (the California Institute of Technology), and is called "What is a Rainforest?":
http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/what.html
If you look, you will find many more--some even with animal soundtracks, much like that with which you will be regaled on Caltech's "What is?" website.
To simply answer your qusetion, though: The canopy layer and its understory house most of the rainforest's animal species. When one realizes most animal species there and everywhere are insects, this will make even more sense.
What animals are being harmed by deforestation in haiti?
Many animals including tree dwelling mammals and birds are harmed by the deforestation of Haiti. Several species of monkeys are endangered and teetering on being extinct on the island.
What animals live in the temperate rain forest of New Zealand?
How do animals interact in the temperate rainforest of New Zealand
What is a name of ANY rainforest?
One answer I know for sure is the Amazon. It is in Brazil. Also the Daintree rainforest in Australia
The closest thing they do to jumping is falling out of trees. They are known to climb down to the ground when they want to move to a different tree.
For wood to build things. Sadly, lots of animals lose their habitats because of us, humans. We need to try to save the trees, for the safety and existence of our animals, like our cute little koalas.
More detail:
Trees are also cut down to clear land for crops and development of homes, shopping centers, etc. In addition to being used for the lumber, trees are also used in making paper - all sorts of paper. Paper for writing, copy machines, facial and toilet tissue, wrapping paper, news etc., comes from trees. And as you can see, that is a lot of paper!
Fortunately, the advent of the computer (internet and email) and its popularity has decreased the amount of paper the average consumer uses, but we do need to find more ways to reduce that amount. Because as the above answer stated, we do need to save the trees, for the safety and existence of animals, as well as the other benefits trees provide.
Trees, in addition to providing natural habitat for thousands of species of animals and insects, also help prevent soil erosion, and help our air stay cleaner. Many logging companies are now replanting trees as they cut the mature ones, which does help. But we all need to do our part by recycling, as well as being more conservative in our use of these products.
What is internal growth strategy?
Also referred to as an organic growth strategy, it's a strategy focused on making the core business better. i.e. Developing new products, increasing efficiency, hiring the right people, better marketing etc. On the other hand, an external growth strategy is more concerned with M&As, JVs, strategic alliances, etc.
What food do rainforest Amerindians eat?
they eat manoic, sweet potatoes, pineapple's, peppers, beans, maize, cassava, cassava bread and pepper pot
How are rainforests being destroyed?
1. Cattle Ranching
Many rainforests in the Central and Southern America have been burnt down to make way for cattle farming, which supplies cheap beef for North America, China and Russia. It is estimated that for every pound of meat that is produced, 200 square feet of rainforest is being destroyed. In the past 20 years Costa Rica has lost the majority of its forests to beef cattle ranching. This is known as slash and burn farming and is believed to account for 50% of rainforest destruction. But the land doesn't last forever; the soil without the forest will soon become dry and crusty. The cattle farmers then have to move on and destroy some more land to keep their cattle alive.
2. Logging
Logging is believed to be the second largest cause of deforestation. Timber companies cut down trees such as mahogany and teak and sell them to other countries to make furniture. Smaller trees are used to produce charcoal. Large areas of the forest are cut down in one go and the most valuable trees are used for timber and the rest of them for wood chipping.
3. Agriculture
Much of the fruit and cereals we buy from tropical countries have been grown in areas where rainforests used to live. The trees are being cut down to make way for vast plantations where products such as bananas, palm oil, pineapple, sugar cane, tea and coffee are grown.
Palm oil is in our every day products such as: Ben & Jerry's, McDonald's, some milk, cookies, crackers, popcorn, frozen dinners, low-fat dairy, candy, soap and cosmetics.
4. Mining
More Developed Countries (America and United Kingdom) are demanding minerals and metals such as diamonds, oil, aluminium, copper and gold which are found in the ground below rainforests. Poisonous chemicals are sometimes used to separate the waste from the minerals, for example mercury, which is used to separate gold from the soil and debris with which it is mixed. These chemicals often find their way into rivers, polluting water supplies which local people depend on, killing fish and other animals that feed on them, like orang-utans.
How many species of birds are there in the amazon rainforest?
more than 1500, and still counting. We are still finding new species of plants, birds, reptiles, insects, etc. in the Amazon.
What animals that live underwater are found in rainforests?
Many animals live underwater in the rainforest...for instance... FISH!!!
okay, well that was obvious!
There are also many snakes and in some rainforests there are crocodiles and caimans.
Can water lilly's live in dirt as they do in water?
Answer.
In fact water lilies root into and grow in soil at the bottom of a pond so they require both soil to grow in and water to support the foliage.
What trees grow flowers on them?
Plants are divided into two broad categories:
Gymnosperms - which produce cones (like a pine tree) and
Angiosperms - which produce flowers
Angiosperms are further divided into two main groups of plants: the dicotyledonous plants and the monocotyledonous plants.
Both gymnosperms and angiosperms can be classified as well according to their growth habit - Evergreen (or plants which retain their leaves all year round) and Deciduous (plants which drop their leaves during autumn/ fall, are bare through winter and then re-grow their leaves during spring.
All Angiosperm trees have flowers, some aren't very big or noticeable but then some are gorgeous.
Angiosperms do not have flowers, they have cones, deciduous plants have flowers.
How do you know if he is short tempered?
You will definitely know - he will get upset at anything that seems strange to be upset at to you and fly off the handle. It does not end and often time becomes worse - it would be in your best interest to move on from this guy.
What languages are spoken by Okanagan people?
they speak nselxcin or nsyilxcn.There are currently about 200 fluent speakers of that language.The language is currently moribund and has no fluent speakers younger than 50 years of age. hope that helped.
Where does the King Cobra live?
Across south and south east Asia in countries like India, Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka etc.
How did Kerensky contribute to World War 1?
Starting out as an anti war critic from within the Russian Duma, he over the years of war began saying that Russia could not just withdraw. The war was one of his most contentious issues when he was prime minister of the Provisional Government, and concessions made over this issue could have possibly prevented the Bolshevik led October revolution. immediately prior to his brief Prime Minister-ship lays his most direct addition to the war, the Kerensky Offencive. The concept was to give one large push that could hopefully begin the end of the war, while the offensive began strong it quickly fell apart. Kerensky's efforts entangled Russia even more into the war possibly further delaying the withdrawl by the Bolsheviks which took almost 6 months. In his memoirs he says hopefully that perhaps he delayed German victory long enough to allow the United States to enter the war. I think he is the only one that ever believed that.
