The Brazilian Legal Amazon consists of the states of Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Pará, Rondonia, Roraima, Tocantins and part of the states of Maranhão and Mato Grosso, covering 1,577,820 km2. The Brazilian Amazon constitutes 60% of the entire Amazon region (Pan-Amazonia); it has the largest river in the world, the Amazon, which is ca. 6500 kilometers long; it boasts the greatest diversity of fauna and flora on the face of the planet;
its area is equivalent to more than 30 European countries;
it has the biggest mineral reserve on earth;
it has more than 20 million inhabitants.
2006-11-01 04:01:39 · 6 answers · asked by andrea.sirtori 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Rainforests act as 'carbon sinks' basically mopping up the carbon expelled by the world, they convert carbon dioxide into glucose and bulk within the trees, lowering the pace of global warming.
If we cut down the forest we release that carbon dioxide into the atmosphere (it is estimated that 1/8 of all carbon dioxide emissions come from the burning of Tropical rainforests) and an are the size of Wales is cut down every year. its preservation and hopeful expansion is something that the world needs to have as a high concern
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2006-11-01 04:19:21 · answer #1 · answered by prof. Jack 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live in Brazil and I would like to comment about Amazon. Amazon is the bigger rain-forest in the world. It is really huge and many animal and plants can be found in it. And drinking water, in the Amazon forest you can find many rivers. This system produces oxygen because the plants absorb the carbonic gas and liberate oxygen. Another important thing is the balance of the temperature gotten for the water evaporation. Finally we can´t forget that there live many people known as wild. They are living there before the Europeans arrived here.
2016-05-23 02:55:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not only does the Amazon take in a enormous amount of carbon dioxide it also has many plants that are medicinal medicine's as well and they can save many lives with the medicinal plants and
if we destroy the rain forest we will be destroying the very Essen's of the medical potential for the world.
2006-11-01 05:42:14 · answer #3 · answered by wolf 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since it is that big, a lot of carbon dioxide gets inhaled by the forest and oxygen is exhaled geeting us a very little step ahead of global warming. However we must protect the forest to stay that step ahead.
2006-11-01 05:45:26 · answer #4 · answered by Rodney I 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because it soaks up so muc carbon dioxide making it into oxygen, in basic terms, so we can breathe, thats why its so important
2006-11-01 04:15:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
more carbondioxide changed in to oxygen.
2006-11-01 05:23:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋