Rainforest - Education | National Geographic Society
2024年10月7日 · Tropical rainforests are so warm and moist that they produce as much as 75 percent of their own rain through evaporation and transpiration. Such ample sunlight and …
Rainforests 101 - National Geographic Society
2023年10月19日 · Rainforests are home to over half of the world's plant and animal species. Learn about tropical and temperate rainforests, how they contribute to the global ecosystem, …
Rainforests, Explained - National Geographic Society
2023年10月19日 · Tropical rainforests are found near the equator, with high average temperatures and humidity, while temperate rainforests lie mostly in coastal, mountainous …
The Amazon Rainforest - Education
The Amazon Basin supports the world’s largest rainforest, which accounts for more than half the total volume of rainforests in the world. Occupying much of Brazil and Peru, and also parts of …
Rainforests - Education
Despite covering just 6 percent of Earth’s surface, more than half the world’s plant and animal species live in rainforests. Like the name suggests, rainforest ecosystems are full of trees and …
Local and Global Effects of Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest
2024年11月13日 · Since 1947, the total area of tropical rainforests has likely been reduced by more than half, to about 6.2 to 7.8 million square kilometers (3 million square miles). Many …
Grasslands Explained - Education
2023年10月19日 · Tropical grasslands include the hot savannas of sub-Saharan Africa and northern Australia. Rainfall can vary across grasslands from season to season and year to …
taiga - Education | National Geographic Society
2023年10月19日 · The taiga is a forest of the cold, subarctic region. The subarctic is an area of the Northern Hemisphere that lies just south of the Arctic Circle.The taiga lies between the …
South America: Physical Geography - National Geographic Society
2023年10月19日 · One of the continent’s river basins (the Amazon) is defined by dense, tropical rain forest, while the other (Paraná) is made up of vast grasslands. With an unparalleled …
Tropics - Education | National Geographic Society
2023年10月19日 · The tropical seasons are broken up into just two: the wet season and the dry season. The amount of rain can vary greatly from one area of the tropics to another. Some …
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