The Amazon rainforest is estimated to have around 40000 plant species! The forest floor is completely dark. Less than 1% of the available sunlight makes it to the floor, because of the thick tree canopy above. In fact, even rainwater takes around 10 minutes to reach the ground. Think about...
The Amazon Rainforest is the largest rainforest in the world. According to the Mongabay website, the Amazon covers an area of approximately 3,179,715 square miles. It is hard to imagine something so big. To put that into perspective, the entire land area of the United States is 3,794,...
Rainforests play an invaluable role in sustaining life, but every year large portions of them are cut down for logging, mining, and cattle ranches.
Life thrives in the rainforest. One tenth of all of the Earth's species are found in the Amazon Rainforest. Colourful toucans hop from branch to branch, howler monkeys call from the treetops, and tapirs rummage through the leaves on the forest floor searching for food. However, the rainfo...
Of all the jungles that we can find on the planet, the Amazon is the most important. Join me to know these interesting Amazon Rainforest Deforestation Facts
Important Facts about the Amazon Rainforest you really should know: location, size, people, animals, resources, economy and challenges
Amazon Rainforest, large tropical rainforest occupying the Amazon basin in northern South America and covering an area of 2,300,000 square miles (6,000,000 square km). It is the world’s richest and most-varied biological reservoir, containing several mi
forest that is not yet disturbed by humans is dominated by trees, which are able to grow as high as 50 m, and because of the lack of light, the vegetation of the forest floor is open and accessible.18Besidesterra firme, the Amazonian region has two types of forest that are seasonally ...
In this lesson you will learn about the Amazon Rainforest by focusing on the geography and climate of this area. You'll find out who calls the rainforest home, and explore the layers that make up the rainforest. The Amazon Rainforest The Amazon Rainforest is home to thousands of animals...
Like, did you know that the vast expanse of rainforest was named after female warriors from Greek mythology?