occurring in tropical areas of heavy rainfall. In the tropical rainforest most trees in the rainforest have wide buttress roots. Deforestation is a major problem caused by humans in the tropical rainforest. The government has cleared large areas of the Amazon Rainforest and encouraged people to move there. About 80% of the rainforests nutrients comes from trees and plants. Tropical Rainforest Tropical Rainforests are located around the equator, in areas with lots of rainfall, and where temperatures
Words: 663 - Pages: 3
Chapter 1 1.0 Project Title: Assessment of forest disturbance caused by logging impacts in 2014 at Besul Tambahan Forest by using High Resolution satellite data 1.1 Background of Study Forest can be defined as a place which having a high density of trees, any area which is packed with tall and big vegetation are also considered as a forest. The trees in the forest are divided into two which are overstory or canopy, and the other one is the understory such as moss layer, moss layer and shrub layer
Words: 1391 - Pages: 6
Compare and Contrast Essay The Atlantic deep sea and an old growth forest are a complete opposite, right? No, the deep sea and an old growth forest are almost the same. There are many reasons why the PNW old growth and the deep sea are similar and different. Both the deep sea and the PNW old growth forests are very interesting places. One has no air, and the other one is only air. As Wade Davis once said, “A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. Every language
Words: 410 - Pages: 2
In the United States there are over fifty protected areas, known as the National Parks, that people visit every day. Out of the fifty plus parks eleven of them are not on the continental US. California has nine national parks and the top three are; Yosemite Valley National Park, Channel Islands National Park, and Redwood Forest National Park. First let's start with Yosemite Valley National Park, which is located in northern California. John Muri, a Scottish immigrant, founded the park in early October
Words: 527 - Pages: 3
Tropical Rainforest Ecosystem The tropical rainforests, such as the Amazon Rainforest are some of the richest environments in the world. They get their name because of the high amount of rainfall they get per year. The climate of a rainforest is very hot and humid, so all types of species must learn to adapt. A rainforest can hold as many as 80,000 plant species. Forty thousand of the Amazon Rainforest species regulate the whole planet’s climate. Anywhere between 40-100 species of trees can
Words: 278 - Pages: 2
SIR- Douglas McCauley, in the article “Selling out on Nature”, expressed his view that there is little evidence to support the notion that market based conservation works. Instead he seeks to once again instill nature as a priority in the people’s minds (no longer focusing only on the intrinsic value). While I understand McCauley’s perspective is not unique, his is not the only one. Conservation based on intrinsic and cultural values cannot be the only way to benefit nature and biodiversity. The
Words: 374 - Pages: 2
Many people enjoy inspirational stories if you are one of them then you will enjoy the “GateKeeper” by Robert Liparulo which has an amazing Plot and characters and a great theme which makes this a amazing book. The “Gatekeeper” is a novel That setting takes place at Pinedale, California. It had some amazing characters and their names are Xander “who has just started 10th grade”, David “who has just started 7th grade and is the younger brother of Xander”, Toria “who is the younger sister of Xander
Words: 318 - Pages: 2
Most miners of the Amazon lead a very polluted way of life. They pollute the environment they live in and they pollute themselves. The, "garimpeiros" as the miners are called in Brazil are independent farmers of the gold that flows beneath the rivers of the Amazon rain-forest. Their daily routine of early mornings, long hard days, and late nights drinking and taking cocaine contribute to their way of life. Their only goal in life is to drill for the gold dust which seems to collect at the bottoms
Words: 456 - Pages: 2
Associate Level Material Lemurs in Madagascar Assignment View the “Lemurs in Madagascar – Surviving on an Island of Change” video. Using the information found in this video, and in Ch. 5 and 6 of Visualizing Environmental Science, answer the following questions in 25 to 100 words each. 1. What are Madagascar’s biomes? Discuss the major features of at least one of these biomes. Use the textbook for biome examples. Madagascar’s biomes are tropical rain forest, tropical dry forest
Words: 475 - Pages: 2
broken bones or used any healing methods. What was prehistoric society like around the Amazon? Populations from North American and Europe did not find the prehistoric Amazon population interesting. The cultural differences were too vast, as opposed to societies around the Amazon. The Amazonian people believed in coexisting with their gods and relied heavily on their dangerous environment. I suppose the Amazon was a threat to societies around it, since they had not developed an acquired set of skills
Words: 405 - Pages: 2
