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The Amazon - Geography 2014
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- 1The Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world, covering over five and a half a million square kilometres (1.4 billion acres).Over half of the Amazon rainforest is located in Brazil but it is also located in other South American countries including Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Guyana, Bolivia, Suriname and French Guiana.
- 210% of the world’s known species live in the Amazon rainforest.20% of the world’s bird species live in the Amazon rainforest.
- 3It is home to around 2 and a half million different insect species as well as over 40000 plant species.There are also a number of dangerous species living in the Amazon rainforest such as the cougar, jaguar and anaconda.
- 4In both 2005 and 2010 the Amazon rainforest suffered severe droughts that killed off large amounts of vegetation in the worst affected areas.A recent study by climate change experts suggests that a 3 °C rise in world temperatures by the year 2010 would destroy around 75% of the Amazon.
- 5The Amazon rainforest is also known as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle.It is a moist broadleaf forest
- 6Around 80% of the food we eat originally came from rainforests. Some of the more popular examples include coffee, chocolate, rice, tomatoes, potatoes, bananas, black pepper, pineapples and corn.The forest floor is almost completely dark – with less that 1% of the available sunlight making it through the tree canopy above.
- 7Over a quarter of the medicines we use today have their origins in the rainforestsRainforest land is not really any good for farming, it's low quality and once it has been farmed for 2-3 yeats, it's basically useless.
- 8About 30% of our carbon emissions come from burning the rainforests.If deforestation continues at the current rate, we’ll completely lose the rainforests within the next 40 years.
- 970% of plants found to have anticancer properties are found only in the rainforest.There is about fifty Amazon tribes that have never had contact with the outside world.
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