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The Amazon Rainforest, also known as Amazonia
or the Amazon Jungle is a moist and wide-spread
rainforest that covers 1.4 billion acres of the
Amazon Basin. It is spread amongst several
countries, such as Brazil, Peru, Colombia,
Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname
and French Guiana.Most of the Rainforest covers
majority of South America. The Amazon is 3.1600
degrees South and 60.0300 degrees West. The
Amazon Rainforest is a tropical
rainforest and is located 2-4 degrees South of the
equator.
 
☆ The Amazon rainforest accounts for more than
half of the entire world's remaining rainforests
☆ The Amazon rainforest is also referred to as
the ‘Lungs of the Planet' because it produces
more than 20% of the world's oxygen
☆ It is believed that there may still be as many as
50 Amazon native tribes living in the rainforest
that have never been in contact with the rest of
the world
☆ If you were caught in the rain in the Amazon  
you would have about 10 minutes to find your
umbrella. The trees are so tightly packed that   

AMAZON 
it can take 10 minutes for the rain to reach the
ground below

RAINFOREST 
 

CLIMATE 
As a result of being a tropical rainforest, the
Amazon's weather and climate is very hot, humid
and damp. Its average temperature is 27 degrees.
There is no seasons like Summer, Autumn, Winter
and Spring, it is just one humid season with lots of
rain. In the Amazon it rains almost all year round! At
the time where it is constantly raining, the Amazon
produces 60-180 inches of water. However, even
when precipitation is not at its most it still reaches

 
30-100 inches of water. In different parts of the
Amazon the rainfall varies.

Ava Austi  
C ODD  
AP Biology 4th Quarter Project 
April 2018  
 
 
 

FLORA  FAUNA  SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIPS
It is estimated that approximately 40,000 different
species of plants are found in the Amazon​ rainforest.
Bananas​ are found in the Amazon rainforest. They are
giant herbs that grow up to 20 feet and their blossoms
eventually form into fruits and are used for sustenance.
An adaptation of the banana is that the stems of their
trees are 93% water due to the abundance of water in
the rainforest so the bananas have evolved to make use
of the water.
Orchids​ are beautiful and delicate flowers found in this
rainforest. They are flowers that bloom up to 14 feet
long and come in all colors besides black. An adaptation
of the orchid is that they are able to grow on trees,
which they have evolved to do because of the
abundance of trees in the rainforest giving them more
areas that they can grow on.
The ​coffee plant​ is also found in the Amazon. This plant
is technically considered a bush or a shrub, but it can
grow up to 40 feet tall and produces the beans that
people use for coffee drinks.
Water lilies​ are the world's
largest flower and they can
grow to be as big as six feet
in diameter. They are found
in calm waters and many are
found on the banks of the
Amazon river and the many
other bodies of water within
the Amazon rainforest
The ​cacao plant​ can be found in the Amazon, which is
an evergreen tree that produces pods containing cacao
beans that eventually produce chocolate
The ​Kapok tree ​is the
Amazon rainforest largest
tree. The trunk of this tree
can get as big as about
ten feet in diameter and
they can grow as high as
200 feet tall. This tree
sprouts flowers and the
smell of these flowers
attracts bats. These trees are home to a variety of
different species such as frogs, insects, and birds.
 
Approximately 2.5 million insects, 3,000 fish, 427 mammals,
378 reptiles, ​1,294 birds​, and 428 amphibians can be found One type of symbiotic relationship found in the
all about Amazon rainforest areas. Amazon rainforest is a relationship of mutualism
Spider Monkeys ​are between leaf cutter ants and fungi. The ants
also found in the protect the fungi from pests and predators and
Amazon and they are they feed it while the fungi provides a place for
small monkeys that the ants to store their larvae so that it is protected
live in the tops of the
and fed. This relationship is mutualism because
trees in the rainforest
and they rarely come they help each other and both benefit. Another
down. They can grow type of relationship is a relationship of parasitism
up to 20 inches. An between a strangler fig and a tree. The strangler
adaptation that they fig starts growing out of the tree, downwards and
have is the ability to jump between the trees and the ability to
stay in the trees and live there and it has evolved that way upwards, and eventually wraps itself around the
because it is safer for them to stay up away from predators. tree, killing it. This is parasitism because it is only
beneficial to one party involved.
Anacondas​ are found in the rainforest and they are large
snakes that can grow up to 37 feet in length and swim in the
Amazon River and slither on the land nearby
Jaguar​: This is one of the Amazon rainforest's most
dangerous animals. This big cat can weigh as much as 250
pounds and reach six feet in length. They will eat anything
they can catch, including humans, and will swim, run (they
are incredibly fast), or climb a tree to catch their prey.
Poison Dart Frogs​ are
found in the Amazon
and they are a small
amphibian that can
grow up to 7 cm in
length. An adaptation
that these frogs have
is how they lay their  
eggs in water. This is  
an advantage and it
has evolved that way HUMAN IMPACT 
because of the abundance of water in the rainforest. Human activities have severely disturbed the
amazon rainforest. Many acres have been lost
Manatees​ are also found in the Amazon rainforest in the each year to farming, logging, mining and
river. They are large bodied creatures that look like whales other human endeavours. These activities
that can grow up to 12 feet in length
could potentially eliminate the amazon
Piranhas​ can be found in the Amazon River in the rainforest. rainforest and as worrying as that sounds it is
Piranhas are small, vicious fish that attack blood and flesh real and currently occurring in the rainforest.
and can reach a foot in length.