Amazon Rainforest And Its Impact On The Biome - 1576 Words

What Is Amazon Rainforest, What Are the Human Activities In it and what effects do these activities have on the biome? One of the biome which I found interesting was the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon Rainforest is region which is owned by more than 1 country because of its land mass. It is actually owned by 9 nations. This biome is situated in the amazon basin of South Africa. The Amazon Rainforest covers 5,500,000 km2 (2,123,562 sq mi) of total 7000000 km2 of the Amazon basin. This particular rainforest cover more than 50% of the world rainforest biome. So as to understand this particular rainforest biome better, I am going to talk about the Brazil part of the rainforest as it owns 60% of the rainforest. I found this particular†¦show more content†¦Climate Condition: Amazon rainforest has a tropical climate or also know as the equatorial climate. It is humid throughout the year and has an average temperature of 28 degree celsius. We can not really divide the climate between summer and winter as it has a annual temperature range of 2 degree celsius. The temperature difference between day and night is about 2 to 5 degree celsius. The climate is not as hot as we may except it rarely goes above 30 degree celsius. but the only trouble in the rainforest is the humidity which causes a feeling of lack of air. Due to the humidity we can not really see a dry season in the amazon as it rains thought out the year. We can divide rainfall in Amazon into into two parts rainy and not so rainy. If we look at the above climate table of the amazon basin we can find that the temperature is almost constant throughout the year. But we can kind of divide rainfall in Amazon into rainy and â€Å"not so rainy†. If we have a look at the above table between the months June to September we can call it â€Å"not so rainy† and the rest of the months we can call it rainy. This is between October to May. Flora and Fauna: There are around 40,000 plants species, 427 mammals, 1,300 birds , 378 reptiles and 400 amphibians and 3000 freshwater fishes. These are just the number of some big animals. But in fact if we count the number of smaller life forms it will be way more the above number. There are more that 100,000