Amazon Rainforest: By: James Nguyen
Amazon Rainforest: By: James Nguyen
Amazon Rainforest: By: James Nguyen
Location
The Amazon rainforest is found in South America Most of the Amazon Rainforest can be found in Brazil and Peru. However some parts of the rainforests are also in Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, French Guiana, Bolivia, Guyana, and Suriname. This area is known as the Amazon Basin
Facts
The Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world Covers around five and a half a million square kilometres It has 2 and a half million different insect species There are 40000 plant species in the Amazon Rainforest Many dangerous species live in the Amazon rainforest 30 million people live in the Amazon Rainforest
The Jaguar
Found in the Amazon River Basin the third largest cats in the world Jaguar comes from the Native American word yaguar meaning "he who kills with one leap. Their diet is fish, turtles, and caimans which are small, alligator-like animal and can also hunt bigger animals like deers. In the wild they can live up to 15 years Adult jaguars can weigh up to 45 - 113 kilograms. A jaguar from the tip of its tail to the nose can be 240 cm long
Jaguars are good swimmers and can climb trees Cubs are blind at birth The black spots on a jaguar is called a rosette
Annatto/Lipstick tree
It has heart shaped fruits Its colour is brown or reddish brown It is covered with short stiff hairs. When it is fully grown the fruits open up, inside showing a lot of dark red seeds the fruit is not edible
The seeds are used to make dyes and food colouring The plant can be used to treat snakebites Rainforest peoples have used the plant for things such as insect repellent and to make love potions
Many herbal medication is made from the plants in the Amazon rain forest. If it was a country it would be the 9th largest in the world. the length of the Amazon River is around 6400 kilometres
17 % of the Amazon forest has been lost in the last 50 years. This is due to deforestation Animals lose their homes because of this and some are endangered Because trees are cut down less oxygen is produced
Bibliography
http://www.wikiveler.com/south-america/attractions/amazonrainforest/images/amazon-rainforest-home.jpg http://enviro-map.com/wpcontent/uploads/2008/03/amazon_forest.jpg http://www.daleysfruit.com.au/Herbs/achiote.htm http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/01873/amaz.htm http://kids.nationalgeographic.com.au/kids/animals/creaturefe ature/jaguars/ http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/amazon/p roblems/ http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_facts_about_the_amazo n_rainforest http://worldwildlife.org/places/amazon
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By: James Nguyen