Introduction to the Amazon rainforest
By Jacob R. Block 3 Final product
You might be asking what a rainforest is. A rainforest is lush-green place full of foliage and many plants and animals that we may never have heard of that may live there. Even plants that can cure illness like cancer. But the rain forest is getting cut down and plants and animal are dying becauseof us another word for this is deforestation. I’ll show facts about the rainforest. The Amazon rainforest is located on the continent of South America. It has many different climates like tropical-wet, tropical-dry, highland, and marine west coast but there are some more. (Look at climate map for details.) The Amazon is in the countries of Brazil, Bolivia, Suriname, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, French Guiana, and Guyana but the rain forest use to cover 14%of South America and now it only covers 6%as show on the map.
There are people who live in the rainforest and they live in a group called tribes and they hunt, live, and have a different culture. A tribe that lives in the rain forest is called the Yanomami (Yan-o-mum-y). There tribe lives in the counties of Brazil, and Venezuela. There languages are Saporoan, Oto-Manguean, Iranian, Mixe-Zoquean, and Niger-Congo. You might also be wondering how
can we get information from the or how they get information from us. The way to answer that is us visiting them and sharing information or telling stories. There are four layers to the rainforest. The first layer is called the forest floor, the second layer is called the understory, the third layer is the canopy, and the forth layer is called the emergent layer. Major predators like the jaguar are on the top of the food chain and or web. Prey is a word for hunted like how a jaguar eats birds or a monkey eats bananas. There are two animals I’m going to talk about. One is called an ocelot and the other is called a thorn tailed iguana. The ocelots’ habitat is in the understory and the thorn tailed iguana is indigenous in the canopy. The ocelot features as follows: Looks like a jaguar. It is similar how house cat is built but larger. Males are 12 kilograms females are smaller. The thorn tailed iguana as follows: Its noticeable feature is its tail and the color it usually brown. The adaptation for an ocelot is its fur. Its fur helps it blend in with its surroundings. An adaptation for a thorn tailed iguana is its tail it helps whip away predators.
Ocelot:
Thorn tailed iguana: Some animals use a thing called camouflage. Camouflage is when an animal looks like another animal to trick its predator. There are also two plants I’m going to talk about. One is named Heliconia. It lives in the canopy and is hunted buy people and birds. They come in many colors, shapes, and sizes and their usesfor people are decorations. The other is called a Bromeliad. It also lives in the canopy and they come in orange, blue, purple, and red. It is hunted by people becauseit produces pineapples. You still might be wondering what a food web is. It’s like a food chain but tell more than one animal an animal eats or how energy is transferred. Here is a food web looks like:
. Organisms are something that’s alive. A producer is a plant like grass and trees. Producers use a unique way of getting food called photosynthesis. They get food from the sun. An herbivore is an animal that eats plants like the Chimp. A carnivore is an animal that eats meat like the Ocelot. An omnivore eats plants and animal like the macaw. Even though it doesn’t show it also eats insects. A decomposer as shows eats everything dead. If you do something to help it could save many animals and you could be known for something very important.
Sites used: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/amazon-rainforest-plants.html http://www.junglephotos.com/amazon/amhome.shtm
http://www.experiencefestival.com/yanomami_-_language