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By:Aimee
The Amazon Rainforest
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Introduction
Welcome to the Amazon Rainforest. Here, many people, plants, and animals exist. The culture is how the people live together and do rituals. The people here live in harmony and danger as well.
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Countries and Location The Amazon Rainforest is in a location as well. The countries that the rainforest runs through are: Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. The exact location of the Amazon rainforest is 0⁰ by 15⁰ latitude by 45⁰ by 75⁰ longitudes. The land cover map of the Amazon Rainforest is shown below.
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Climate The climate of an area is the overall temperature of an area over time. The Amazon Rainforest’s temperature is 80⁰F (or 27⁰C). South America has many different climate zones. These are shown in the map below. 4
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The Giant Amazon Water Lily
The Giant Amazon Water Lily is a large lily pad that floats in the calm rivers and ponds of the Amazon rainforest. This plant grows in the water on long vines to allow freedom to move around the body of water. Adaptations are what an organism has to survive in their natural surroundings. An organism is a living thing (biotic). An adaptation of this plant is that it has thorns on the underside of the lily pad. This plant makes food by photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is a process where a plant takes in sunlight, making it food to support it. Wildlife and humans consider this (the plant) as foliage. Foliage is just leaves. This water lily is a producer, meaning that it makes food by photosynthesis. Its color of the flower is different for each one; the flower could be pink or white.
This flower has no uses for human beings, although, it does have some uses for food. The animal that eats this plant are its predators, while it (the plant) is their prey.
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Venus Fly Trap
The Venus fly trap is a carnivorous plant whose diet consists mainly of flies, or whatever else touches it. Carnivorous means that they eat other living things, so you could call them a predator of flies. This plant has no predator, as any animal would probably not want to try to eat this. Its habitat, or where it lives, is on the forest floor waiting for an unknowing fly to land there on top for a break. SNAP!! Too late. The bugs actually make the plant grow better than sunlight and water alone. Its carnivorous values are making it more popular. I just wouldn’t get too close. Again, this plant has no medicinal value, and probably wouldn’t if ingested.
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Scarlet Macaw
This animal is red, yellow, and blue. It has feathers and flies. It’s a scarlet macaw! This bird lives in the emergent layer most of the time and is not an omnivore, an animal that eats both plants and animals, or a carnivore, but an herbivore! Omnivores eat plants. Its long, curved beak is an adaptation for cracking nuts. Its predators are monkeys, toucans, and snakes. It preys on (or eats) seeds, nuts, and fruit.
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The Jaguar
This animal is one of the sneakiest in the Amazon. It’s the jaguar. It’s a carnivore, and preys on turtles, tapirs, and capy baras. (So it’s not a omnivore, or animal that eats both plants and animals.) This animal’s adaptations are the spots. They help it stay camouflaged, or hidden, to get its next bite of food. The jaguar has no predators, so it’s pretty much the safe one. This animal lives on the forest floor where it has everything it needs to survive.
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The Yanomani Tribe This tribe of the rainforest is no ordinary tribe. This tribe is called the Yanomano, and they live in small huts with their family. Their village is set up in concentric circles, and they help out one another. These people aren’t nomads, or people who move to have certain resources, but they branch out.
The Ticuna Tribe This tribe is a little bit different from the Yanomani, but they relatively are the same. The Ticuna tribe’s lifestyle is a little bit different. The clothes that the girl is wearing in the picture are clothes that have been traded for a resource or weapon made by the Ticunas. The Ticunas burn large plots of land to get resources in the ground, such as manna, which is similar to a potato.
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Food Web Food webs show what eats what in an ecosystem. A decomposer is an organism that breaks down the dead bodies of other organisms to restore the nutrients to the soil. So, the oyster mushroom would break down the dead bodies of all the organisms and return their nutrients to the soil.
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Conclusion At the pace were going, all this will be lost. The Amazon Rainforest once made up 14% of the Earth. Now it makes 6%. We need to conserve the rainforest, or we won’t have it anymore.
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