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Amazon Rainforest

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

AMAZON RAIN FOREST

MADE BY: JENNIFER ARREOLA
Photo by Fredlyfish4

LOCATION

  • The Amazon rain forest is located in South America.
  • It also covers 2.1 million miles of land
  • Half of the Amazon rainforest is located in Brazil.
Photo by Ivan Mlinaric

COUNTRIES

  • Brazil

CLIMATE AND VEGETATION

  • The climate there is hot and humid
  • There are more than 60,000 species of trees.

FACTS

  • The Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world
  • Over half of the Amazon rainforest is located in Brazil
  • 10% of the world’s known species live in the Amazon rainforest.
  • 20% of the world’s bird species live in the Amazon rainforest.
  • It is home to around 2 and a half million different insect species