Amazon River Basin
The Amazon is one of the largest rivers of the world and the chief river of the South America. It is 4,000 miles long, about 6,400 km. It is the second largest river in the world's and the flow is the world largest by far. It is also one of the deepest rivers. The Amazon River begins at Huarco. The Amazon system is joined to the Orinoco by the Casiquaire River in Venezeula. The Amazon Basin is almost 40% of the total area of South America. The Amazon area is a home to many of the known animals and many unknown animals. The Amazon holds a great biodiversity. The Amazon spreads over 2,030,000 square mile. Over 25,000 species of plants and more butterflies can be found here than anywhere else on the planet. There are also 170 Indian cultural groups living in the Amazon, remnants of the 7 million who flourished there once, but who have been reduced to no more than 200,000 today. Tropical is considered to be the rivers climate and 87 degrees farenheit being its average temperature. The average rainfall across the whole Amazon Basin is approximately 2300mm annually.As known in some areas of the northwest portion of the Amazon Basin, yearly rainfall can exceed 6000mm. The Amazon Basin has not always
Humans have a huge effect on the climate. CFC's are the cause of the ozone hole. We have, through our industry, unleashed carbon dioxide and methane, agents of global warming. Some also argue, the planet is going through climatic changes that have occurred periodically throughout the planet's history. Whatever the case may be, plants and animals will not be able to survive the global temperature increases as well as humans will. It might prove disastrous to the biodiversity there. Flooding is a huge problem for residents who live around flood banks or close to the rivers, since the all water from the surrounding highlands collects into the Amazon Basin. Resident have had to adapt to the large amounts of rain by making their houses on stilts so that if they are flooded, water passes below their houses. Many build houses on rafts so that the whole house rises during a flood and comes back down when the floods recede. The Amazon has a rich diversity of plants and animals. It is a haven for thousands of species of plants and animals. The reason the Amazon has great biodiversity is due to the last Ice Age which occurred approximately 2.5 million years ago. When large glacial ice masses moved upon the continents, places like the Amazon rainforest became a refuge for creatures because year-round temperatures stayed pretty constant and the forest had warm weather this was very hospitable for many plants and animals. Animals generally moved towards the tropics by locomotory means such arms or legs. Plants moved more slowly, because the only way they could move is by seed dispersion. When plants dispers
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