Amazon rainforest

By: Alondra S. Block-3

Introduction

What and where is the Amazon rainforest? The Amazon Rainforest is located in South America. The countries containing the rainforest are Brazil, Bolivia, Columbia, Ecuador, French Guyana, Guyana, and Suriname. Most of the rainforest is in Brazil. The rainforest is a tall, dense, jungle. All the green areas represent trees, plants, and evergreens, which most of them are organisms called producers that make their own food through sunlight called photosynthesis.

Pictures

Shows deforestation in the Amazon rainforest

This is a small waterfall.

PlantsThe buttercup

The buttercup is a very beautiful flower of our tropical rainforest. The color is usually yellow and it has a unique cup shape. These flowers bloom in May and in April, they grow on the forest floor. Many herbivores eat this flower, but not humans. They don’t really help people but there just there for herbivores to eat.

Algae An alga is a gross, mossy plant that grows on the top of ponds and water. You might even notice it in your pool after you don’t use it for a while. Alga are usually green, but some are red. The flamingo is its primary eater. The

flamingo eats the red, blue, and green algae.

TribeYanomami[How do they live?] People and children in the Yanomami tribe are having trouble dealing with criminals, but the government used to protect them, but now the government is refusing to protect them from diseases and sickness. This is how people work, women work on gardens and growing crops and the men hunt for the food.[How is the village set up, what do they use for shelter] People in the Yanomami tribe live in yanos or shabonos. These things are large, circular shaped houses. These unique houses can hold up to 400 people. The yanos is unique because of the weird form; it has a wide open middle where activities are taken place. Toward the ends is where people sleep.[How do they use products from the rainforest] women work on gardens and grow crops, from the forest they collect nuts, berries, shellfish, and insect larvae. Both men and women do fishing. They also use up to 500 plants for medicine, food, building houses, and many more.[What is their culture like?] Some ceremonies that they celebrate are the harvesting of the peach palm fruit, the yanomami believes

in the spiritual world very much. Every object has a spirit. The shamans, to take control of this spirit, they sniff yakoana, hallucinogenic snuff.

Tribe Ticuna [How do they live?] People in the Ticuna tribe form 2,500 people. From all those people the families are separated into 2 governments. The Ticuna tribe is one of the best tribes in the northern Amazon. The people there are nice and are honest. Almost all the things that these people live for, is hunting and fishing.[How is the village set up?] The population is 2,500; from there the people are divided into 2 governments.[How do they use product from the rainforest] In the Ticuna tribe they collect many plants for medicines, and cures for diseases. They also collect these forest products such as wax, rubber, sarsapilla, and gum; they collect them not to keep, but to sell to buyers and traders.[What is their culture like?] People in the Ticuna tribe don’t really dress up, they sometimes walk around naked, or with a G-string, and a collar of full of monkey or jaguar teeth. They don’t dress up extravagant because mostly the dress out of what they hunt, like a jaguar’s fur or monkey fur. They do have a lot of beliefs, they do believe in good and in bad spirits. All girls and women

work but when they reach 12 they take a break for a while.

Basket they made with their own hands.

The kind of climate that this rainforest has is hot, humid, wet, and tropical. The average temperature is 72 Fahrenheit to 93 degrees. The average rainfall a year is about 80 inches but in some areas it’s up to 430 inches.

Movement is used in many ways at the Amazon rainforest. It can be used in how people actually migrate or in how business work and how people trade goods. Many people at the rainforest are building roads for people to use cars and drive around. Also people travel in small airplanes because of how huge the rainforest is, and when you have to travel through rivers you travel on boats. People trade goods and services, like instead of buying things they exchange goods and services. Layers

1: forest floor~ The forest floor is at the bottom. It is really hot, and it’s great for plants to grow there. Animals that live there are giant ant eaters, and many decomposers that break down dead material.

2: understory layer~ The understory layer is the second from the bottom. It does not get a lot of sunlight, but jaguars, insects, red eyed tree frog and leopards. Many omnivores live here, too. They eat both meat and plants.

3: Canopy layer~ The canopy layer is the third from the bottom. The trees have small oval leaves and animals live here because of the food.

4:`l Emergent layer~ The emergent layer is at the way top. It has tall trees, and tall evergreens.

Many animals have to get used to where they live, their habitat. Animals camouflage to get away from their predator that’s trying to eat them, blending in with its surroundings helps the prey get away. The habitat of an animal can be a tree; a tree is a home to a jaguar. Another animal, the spider monkey could live on it, too. There are many types of predators, but one of the major is the leopard and panthers, the major prey would probably be many different kinds of plants or any insects.

Animal 1: Spider monkey The spider monkey is furry, has big eyes and usually brown, golden, black, tan, or red. And like all the other monkeys they, have long tails. The spider monkey spends most of their time swinging in between the tree branches, he stays there for a long time because that’s where they find most of their food; the canopy layer. The spider monkey is not really hunted, only humans and some carnivores like jaguars eat them. The spider monkey is a herbivore, because it only eats plants, seeds, and fruits. So according to the information the spider monkey eats the foliage off the trees. The monkey has already adapted or gotten used to, to its habitat and environment. For example, when it’s winter it grows fur and when it’s running away from a predator it climbs onto a tree and starts to swing, it’s tail is so long that it actually helps it swing.

Animal 2: Flamingo The flamingo is pink, tall, has a very long neck, a large beak, and very long legs. The flamingo lives in the rainforest, but also can live in any tropical or subtropical areas, also known as hot and damp areas. But they do usually live close to a pond, so it’s on the understory layer. It lives near a pond because that’s where they find their food; they mostly eat red, green, and blue alga, diatoms, larval, adult forms of insects, crustaceans, mollusks, and small fishes. They have also adapted to their bodies and environments by, their webbed feet, which help them walk better through soft mud, and their super long legs which allow them to go deeper into the water while searching for food. Some animals that eat this animal are some vultures after their dead and some carnivores.

Conclusion or human environment interactions There are millions of forests, but only a couple rainforests are left, the tropical rainforests are disappearing due to the clearing of the land, also known as deforestation. Other ways the rainforests are disappearing is because of conservation, of us humans not conserving and recycling well and ecotourism. Now ecotourism works in good and bad ways, when people travel there. But if we all work together we could save out beautiful rainforests.

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