Rainforest

The documentary film “Cowspiracy” aimed to highlight the global effects animal agriculture and livestock has on our environment, our health, and the future of our Earth. Kip, the director of this film, had a natural love for the outdoors and nature growing up. So, when he learned of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming,” he became very concerned about the health and sustainability of the Earth. He began taking quick showers, separating different pieces of trash, riding…

Sierra Madre Occidental on the west, and the Sierra Madre del Sur in the south. The mountains cause little rain central Mexico and much on the ocean shores. The Amazon is divided into three categories. They are the Amazon river, the Amazon Rainforest, and the Amazon River Basin. The Amazon River is the second largest river in the world next to the Nile river. It…

Primates are an essential part of the food webs of rain forests. The forests inhabited by primates help soil stay in place thus percolating runoff and precipitation into aquifers. If we keep destroying these rainforests biodiversity will lower, forested areas will become vulnerable to soil erosion and even desertification, reducing or even completely stopping natural services such as aquifers. This will also lead to soil erosion in river beds, disturbing water…

animals, if you want to learn more about them, keep reading on. A sloth’s diet consists of mainly leaves but also buds, fruit, twigs and sometimes insects and rodents. The sloth can also feed from over 50 different trees in the American Tropical Rainforest. Although, the cecropia tree is their favorite. The cecropia tree will be defended by Azteca Ants which the sloths will ingest. Since the cecropia tree will be defended by Azteca Ants they go to different trees and…

peaceful and adventures country. In this small county you can do tons of things to do while you are in Costa Rica. Some of the things that you can do in Costa Rica are you can go to the battlefield of the Costa Rican civil war. You can also go to the rainforest and see all of the beautiful animals and plants that are located there. The great country of Costa Rica couldn’t be what it is today without a little violence, this was one of the five wars Costa Rica had. The civil war was a war between…

From growing crops to destroying cities, Latin America’s geography and landforms have a large impact on the people who live there. Some examples are mountains, deserts, rainforests, and plate boundaries. Some of these contribute to science. Others merely impact where people chose to live. Either way, geography affects the people. Mountain ranges such as the Andes and Sierra Madre have vertical climate zones. Each of the five climate zones provide different resources, giving Latin America…

What animal lives in the rainforest, lies in the sun with its friends, and often eats salad for lunch? That’s right, the Green Iguana! The Green Iguana’s physical characteristics help it to escape from being caught by predators. They are reptiles that live in warm, tropical climates unless they are a pet or live in a zoo. The Green Iguana’s characteristics make it well adapted to its natural environment. The Green Iguana lives in the rainforests of Northern Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean…

terrestrial biomes such as the Tropical Rainforest. After the air has risen and lost most of its moisture it travels along the troposphere whilst being…

learned that the United States has helped Panama form their own economy by the Panama Canal. What interested me about my topic was how the Panama Canal did serious damage to the Panama Rainforest. It’s interesting to think that the whole forest relies on itself to survive and if you remove just one portion of the rainforest many plants and animals will die immediately or die eventually by a domino effect. Another fact that caught my attention during my research was how the United States got…

seasonal dump of water from the Pacific, lifted through transpiration, which cascades onto the coastal rainforest. But, there's another part of the ocean currently surging hundreds of kilometers inland: Pacific salmon. October's Pacific rains create prime spawning conditions for wild Pacific salmon. It's also a banner month for the towering trees of British Columbia's coastal temperate rainforests. However, you might be surprised that it's the salmon, not the rain, that make it such a great…