Rain Forests
Since rainfall controls tropical vegetation in the tropics, rain forest types may be classified with reference to local climate. These include lowland, montane, subtropical, and temperate...
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Rain Forest
How Rain Forests Develop
Kinds of Rain Forests
Climate
Geography of Rain Forests
Plant Life
Animal Life
Human Life
The Food Web
Spotlight on the Rain Forests
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Rainforest
Rainforests receive more than 200 days of rain per year, or as much as 240 inches of water. They are characterized by thousands and even millions of plants and trees growing thickly over th...
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Rain Forest
The world's rain forests are the richest ecosystems on Earth, containing an incredible variety of plant and animal life. These forests play an important role in maintaining the he...
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Rain Forest
The ethical and policy issues associated with rain forests are doubly related to technology and science: While technology has provided the tools for cutting down rain forests, science has ...
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Although rain forests are located in both tropical and temperate climate zones, most of the world's rain forests lie in the equatorial regions of South America, West Africa, and Southeast Asia, formin...
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Rainforests play a major role in our life. Through industry and consumption the rainforest and the ecosystems are being destroyed. Pollution is rising in the earth's air, rivers and seas. The soil b...
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The natural resource of wood is being used at an unsustainable rate, with minimal effort to change societal views on the depletion of this valuable natural resource. Much of the wood we use today c...
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The rainforest is an important resource to the world and modern society, without certain plants from the rainforest the human race would face a great loss in medicinal plants. From plants that can cu...
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Every day an average of two football field sizes of precious rainforest are torn down, killing millions of animals and destroying valuable pharmaceutical plants. A huge amount of these animals and pla...
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The rainforest, the "earth's lungs," is the greatest source of air that we as humans and animals breathe ("Facts"). Rainforests only cover approximately 2 percent of the world's total land mass, but...
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