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= = =__ The Amazon Rainforest __=

=__ Introduction __=

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The tropical rain forest is a forest of tall trees in a region of warmth. An average of 9 feet of rain falls yearly in the amazon. About 20% of earth's oxygen is produced by the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon is the worlds biggest rainforest. The Amazon rainforest gets its name from the Amazon River. T he Amazon River is one mile wide, at other points it can be thirty-five miles wide.The temperature in a rain forest rarely gets higher than 90°F (30 °C) or drops below 60 °F (20 °C). In the Amazon the climate is warm and humid, the avarege temperature is around 80°F.====== =__Rainforests Around the World__=

=__The Amazon Rainforest__=

__ Food Web __

**__10 organisms__ **

 * ====**Jaguar**====
 * ====**anaconda snakes **====
 * ====**poison dart frog **====
 * ====**Yellow-rumped Caciques(Bird)**====
 * ====**Tapir**====
 * ====**Gray Mouse**====
 * ====**Gorilla**====
 * ====**Golden Lion Tamarin**====
 * ====**Most Bats**====
 * ====**Harpy Eagle**====

The producers in the Amazon rainforest are bamboo, banana trees, rubber trees, cassava, bromeliads, etc. The consumers in the Amazon rainforest jaguars, colombus monkey, sloth, most bats, humming birds, lemur, etc. The decomposers in the Amazon rainforest earthworms, fungi, termites, bacteria, protozans, etc.

** Ecosystem Disruption **
The problem with logging is that people are cutting down too many trees for wood and the rain forest is being wiped out and left with nothing. This is a bad because animals need trees and habitat to live in and wouldn't survive without them.Instead of clear cutting the rain forest, they should only use a decent amount and thin the forest and give it a chance to grow back before taking more.If you cut all the trees down there will be more carbon dioxide that leads too cause global warming. media type="custom" key="13504688"

Sustainable Logging?
There are forms of sustainable logging, but the government has to stop illegal logging. Logging should only be used to thin the forest and use up a decent amount so they do not harm the animals and environment. They need to start thinking about others living things and not only themselves and what they need. Watch a video on sustainable logging.

"http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/forests/amazon/logging-in-the-amazon/" __http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/forests/amazon/logging-in-the-amazon/__

"http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0807.htm" __http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0807.htm__