1B+Rain+Forest+Deforestation

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Threats Humans are the main cause for rainforests disappearing because…. · Wood for both timber and wood for making fires · Agriculture for both small and large farms · Road construction · And one of the main causes of deforestation is logging for furniture, flooring, and construction. · Some threats are from forest fires (on accident mostly) · Some cut down land are from the farmers · Farming is one of the major deforestation reasons · The farmers mainly farm oil palm · Mining in the rainforest has found bauxite which is made into aluminum

Importance of the rainforest · It is a home for animals and plants · It helps the world climate stabilize · It is protection against erosion, drought, and flood · It supports the tribal peoples needs · People can make spices out of some resources · Some spices are allspice, vanilla, cacao, cassava, ginger, bananas, black pepper, sugar cane, nutmeg, and lots more. · The trees and plants in the rain forest remove the carbon dioxide in the air and store it in their roots, leaves, branches, and stems. · It also helps trap heat in the atmosphere.

Abiotic factors Weather- · Rain can fall 80 to 400 inches, (AKA 2 meters) it can rain as fast as 2 inches an hour. · Some water evaporates from the trees leaves and goes somewhere else and rains down the evaporated rain.

Climates- · It is mostly wet is very tropical, warm all year long. The rainforest affects the world’s climate by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Temperature- · Its normal temperature would be 70 degrees to 85 degrees fare height. (24 -27 degrees Celsius ) the rainforest never gets really hot but is never freezing cold Soil- The soil is only 3-4 inches deep and thick like clay lies beneath the soil if any damage done to the clay it might take a while to recover. The soil is ancient and there is little of it

Food Web



Biotic Factors Animal list Plant list
 * Ocelot
 * Toucan
 * Poison dart frog
 * Leaf cutter ant
 * Black caiman
 * Golden lion
 * Vampire bat
 * Anaconda
 * Kinkajou
 * Leaves
 * Bixa fruit
 * Devil’s clubs
 * Snakey vine Stereum ostrea
 * Yungue leaves

Attributions Original image: ' [|Bixa fruits, the lipstick plant] ' ` http://www.flickr.com/photos/27632962@N04/2575468652 by: L S Original image: ' [|yunque_leaves] ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/19907278@N00/3548719 by: Ard Hesslink Original image: ' [|Stereum ostrea (Golden Curtain Crust)] ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/32005048@N06/4525127550 by: Arthur Chapman Original image: ' [|devil's club - beware!] ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/42386231@N00/183562848 by: Original image: ' [|yunque_plant] ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/19907278@N00/3548722 by: Ard Hesslink Original image: ' [|yunque_plant] ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/19907278@N00/3548722 by: Original image: ' [|Ericaceae flowers in the rainforest] ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/27632962@N04/2642523020 by: L S Original image: ' [|snaky vine (Bauhinia, Fabaceae)] ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/27632962@N04/2575469112 by: L S