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This is the first 1,000 characters of 1058 words (4.23 pages) in the essay titled Rain Forests Rain forests occur throughout the world where both heavy rains occur and where forests grow. By definition, a rain forest needs to receive more than eight feet of rain annually. Rain forests cover seven percent of the Earth’s land surface, and two percent of its total surface. Although they cover only a small portion of the Earth, rain forests are home to over fifty percent of the world’s plants and animals. Rain forests are concentrated around the equator, occurring between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, 23.5 degrees north and 23.5 degrees south respectively.The rain forests are made of many different types of surfaces and soils. The minerals that were contained in grains near the surface are “leached out” and have move downwards. Therefore, the layers of soil near the surface will be depleted in some things and layers at depth will be enriched in them. An abundance of water (such as the rain forest has) speeds up the leaching process. Therefore, everything needed for plant growth should have been removed by water, but plants still grow there. Plants are able to do this because of rapid recycling caused by termites and bacteria in a warm, wet climate. When the forest is cut down, all that stops, and the farmers are faced with growing crops in infertile soils. Throughout the tropics, rain forests are being cut down. By different methods and for different reasons, people are cutting down, burning, or otherwise damaging the forests. People throughout the world are ... |
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Keywords: rain forests, destruction of the rain forest, oxford university press, many different types, rate of deforestation, layers of soil, global climate, wet climate, termites, infertile soils, plants, tropics, animal species, fifty percent, land surface, leaching, heavy rains, different reasons