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This Is a picture of the Tropical Rainforest.The graph above this is shows the ratefrom when the Rainforest use to have lotsof trees, in year 2040 there will be none.The rate is very steep in the TropicalRainforest.Environmental problems and the causes of those problems:Experts estimate that we are losing 137 plants, animals, and insect species every day due to rainforest destruction. That is like 50,000 speciesa year. That is because people are clearing the forest for the trees and land. As the rainforest disappears, so do many possible cures for life-threatening diseases. Rainforests use to cover 14% of the earth's land surface. Now they cover 6%, experts estimate that the last remainingrainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years.Background Information:•The average precipitation of the rainforest is 200-1000 centimeters per year.•Temperature range 24 degrees C - 27 degrees C.•Animal species: Chimpanzees, Bengal tigers, elephants, orangutans, bats, toucans,sloth, cobra snakes.•Plant Species: broadleaf evergreens, bamboo, sugar cane•Location:Central and South America, souther Asia, western Africa, and northeasternAustralia•Abiotic Factors: humid all ear, wet.Climatic and/or geographic factors contributing to the destruction of the Rainforest:Humans are the problem. Human problems because once people started clearing land, and thecity population goes up, then people start clearing more and more land. Another thing that couldcontribute to the problem is Global warming. I say that because if the rain forest gets flooded bythe rise of water in rivers. The reason for this is because if oceans rise than the amount of rainwill increase. So if the rain increases than the rivers will rise. Some animals can not live infloods. So some species die out than the whole chain of life will get messed up.Significant impacts to the living things in the Rainforest:The animals are getting pushed out of there homes, and it is hard to live in those conditions. If they cant survive than the whole cycle of life will get messed up. Humans are a big impact on thebiome because we are cutting down the Rainforest and the homes are being destroyed. If thecycle of life gets messed up. An example is if the plant population goes down than the animalswho eat plants, population will go down. The meat eaters who eat the plant eaters population willgo down to.
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Nick DeFuscoBiologyDecember 11, 2009
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