The Rainforest, a Gift from Nature

Taima Haj, Shams Ismail, Qais Ghazal

8th Grade Honors, Pioneers Baccalaureate School-Nablus, Palestine
February11, 2016

INTRODUCTION
The rainforest is full of different animals, and plants. The rainforest is the largest forest in
the world. Its located in Brazil and it is 60% of it. The Amazon rainforest is home for all the
plants and the animals. It has different and strange birds, plants, insects, and animals. The
weather and the climate are rainy and moist always.
Huge areas of the Amazon rainforest were grassland until just 2,000 years ago, it has
been revealed. The Amazon rainforest is located in South America and covers 2.1 million square
miles of land. Brazil has 60% of the Amazons space. The Amazon rainforest has existed for at
least 55 million years. The Amazon rainforest is home to a very diverse range of species, many
of which are not found elsewhere in the world.1
ABSTRACT
This Project is about the Amazon Rainforest. The Amazon Rainforest is the largest Rain
forest in the entire world. It is very special it contains the landforms, as mountains and highlands
and a lot of them. There are types of plants and trees in the Amazon Rainforest. Its known as its
the beautiful and the amazing and the most popular rainforest in the world. It does contain a lot
of special aspects, the landform, plants, the animals, and its geographic location.
There is one big problem, it is deforestation. Its killing the Amazon Rainforest, and there
should be rules and reasons for these natural resources that everyone should save it because it's a
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gift for us. It will have less oxygen for human, and there will be less paper, and animals will
leave, and will go to another place. There are reasons and rules for everything. Every problem
should have a key to open it and finish it, and that will be doing for the Amazon Rainforest to
clean it and to take care of it.
METHODS

Materials:
1) Rocks
2) Flowers
3) Plants
4) Glue
5) Stick
6) Animals (toys)
7) Color paper
8) Styrofoam
9) Paint
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DISCUSSION

Weather and Climate in the Amazon Rainforest

Taima Haj
The Amazon Rainforest is characterized by rain, heat, and more rain and heat, providing
the perfect environment for plants and wildlife! The Amazon is always humid with generous
amounts of rain occurring year-round. Both the rainy and "rainier" seasons are great times to
visit. Season with the most rain can be considered a prime time to visit because there tends to be
an increased amount of animal activity. This is due to that fact that an increase in rain brings
higher levels of fruit production, which means that many species (including monkeys and fruiteating birds.) The rain becomes more frequent in March and continues through July. January is
the start of the least rainy period, a period that continues on until March.
Seasons with the most rain can considered as a perfect time to go and visit the Amazon
Rainforest, because there tends to be an increased amount of animals activity.
The climate of a tropical rainforest is very hot and wet. The average temperatures of a
tropical Rainforest are about 80 degrees F. The temperature of the Rainforest has never dropped
below 64 degrees F. It rains about 160-400 inches each year. There are no seasons in the
Rainforest, and the weather is basically the same thing every day! It's hot, humid and rainy.
This climate affects the plant and animal life in the rainforest because the rain and the
heat help plants to flourish, which provides food for animals. This has changed because of the
destruction of the Rainforest. Some places have turned into a desert, and many plants and
animals can no longer survive.2

The Natural Resources

Taima Haj
The Amazon Rainforest, also known as Amazonia, is one of the world's greatest natural
resources. Because its vegetation continuously recycles carbon dioxide into oxygen, About 20%
of earth's oxygen is produced by the Amazon Rainforest. Water is poured on the plant and the
plant uses it to do the photosynthesis by taking the CO2 and giving the O2
The Amazon Rainforest gets its name from the Amazon River. Amazonia receives about
9 feet of rain every year. The world's largest tropical rainforest, Amazonia covers more than half
of Brazil. The Amazon Rainforest consists of four layers or communities. Each layer has unique
ecosystems, plants, and animals adapted to that system. The emergent layer is the tallest layer,
where trees can be as tall as 200 feet, and rise well above the canopy.3

Geographical Location
Shams Ismail
The Amazon Rainforest located in the upper section of Brazil, south of the equator. It is
also called the Amazon Jungle, is located in South America in an area known as the Amazon
River basin. The Amazon river located 2 to 4 degrees south of the equator. The majority of the
forest is contained within Brazil, The Amazon represents over half of the planet's remaining
rainforests, and it comprises the largest and most species-rich tract of tropical rainforest in the
world. While the forest covers several countries, the largest percentage can be found in Brazil
and Peru. Its 60% of the rain forest, and 13% followed by Peru, and also its connected with a lot
of other countries Smaller portions exist in countries like; Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana,
Suriname.4

The Land Forms in the Amazon

Shams Ismail
The land forms that are in the Amazon Rainforest are created by their own selves. Theses
land forms like mountains, and highlands are giving the Amazon Rain Forest the beautiful look.
Mountains are a landform that is formed by the Earth's tectonic plates crashing into one
another. The highest mountain in the Amazon Rainforest is Pica da Neblina located in the
Amazon Rainforest. There were more biodiversity on a tropical mountain than a temperate
mountain, meaning that they had more varieties of species. Sadly these species are decreasing by
the day, mountains does have a perfect look from the top to the bottom. Also, it is shape look as
if it was too fat but then it goes to thin and they are created next to each other.5

Highlands
Shams Ismail
The weather is different from the rest of the rainforest. The highest temperatures up in the
highlands are about 70F and the lowest is about 50F. That cool weather keeps different animal
and plant species from living in the hot sun and to maintain hydration. Highlands are a
mountainous region that is reserved for low mountains ranges. They do look as mountains but
they are floating all the way down it's a very low but not high as mountains. It also very green
and it gives the beautiful shape for the Amazon Rainforest.
Every land form does have its own job; like the mountains it does a really good look in
the midst of the Amazon Rain Forest. That is how the Amazon Rainforest is a very big place that
does contain everything such as rivers, mountains, etc.

Fauna
Qays Ghazal
The Amazon forest has a lot of fauna, it has 10% from the world's animal species, also it
has approximately 10 million species of animal. And some of these animals are in danger of
extinction, from over numbers of hunting down. So the Amazon forest has some species that
don't exist in various parts of the world. Because of the millions of species in the Amazon, the
food chain is long, so if a kind is extinct, all the food chain will be destroyed. That is why
animals should be saved and protected.
Mammals, birds, and insects live in the Amazon forest, each type has many types. Birds
have 405 kinds; these kinds are colorful and beautiful, for example parrots, harpy eagle, and
hummingbird. Also for mammals there are various kinds, the monkeys, capybaras, sloths, etc.
Then there are insects, 2.5 million kinds of insects, such as ants, beetles, and poisonous spiders.
Some of the species are endangered, and extinction.

Flora
Qays Ghazal
The Amazon forest is home of plants, it has 40000 species of plants. Most of these
species are just found in the Amazon, like the Kapok tree. A lot of these plants are colorful and
beautiful, some are poisonous, and some are not. An example of poisonous plants in the Amazon
Rainforest is strychon, angel's trumpet, and curare. All of these plants release poison on their
leaves, to not get eaten by other animals.
The Amazon forest has two thirds of the plant species in the whole world, the discovered
species. The Amazon has one of the tallest trees in the world, which is the Kapok tree. In every
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one mile square, one can find 750 species of trees, which is a huge number of species! Also there
are 1500 of different flowering plants in each mile squared! Even though, the Amazon still has
secrets not discovered, and we still have a long way to discover.
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Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest

Shams Ismail
The Amazon Rainforest is in a dangerous place. Its having a big problem that could
almost kill the Amazon Rainforest. This Problem is deforestation. Trees are cut in every day and
that will make a big problem.
First problem, there will be less air, and this would make humans and animals in danger.
Second problem birds and animals will leave the place and maybe it will turn into buildings.
Third problem, and it's the important one, there will be no papers any more, no words, no
technology, no life will be then in that time. 20% percent of the trees were been cut or still been
cut in every 2 years.
This can be stopped by a lot of reasons and rules:1. Signs to do not do harmful for the Environment around the people.
2. Every person should pay if he did something harm to the forest.
3. Should work and clean for one week.7

ACKNOWLEDGMNTS

This paper was written by Taima Haj,Qays Ghazal, and Shams Ismail. So thanks to
Pioneers Baccalaureate School for providing us the space to work, and Internet for researching.

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http://famouswonders.com/amazon-rainforest
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http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/habitats/last-of-amazon/
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