4. The animals living in
this rainforest are
directly affected
by deforestation.
Trees form their
main source of
food. They also
build their nest
and take shelter in
different trees.
6. The Amazon river contains 20 percent of
the fresh water on Earth and its
freshwater systems contain minerals
that are important to fertilizing land in
the rainforest. Water pollution is
worsening in the Amazon as a result of
extensive logging in the rainforest.
7. The shrinking rainforest could result
in the Amazon shifting from a
carbon bank that keeps the element
out of the atmosphere, to a source
of carbon in the atmosphere by the
year 2050.
8. The Amazon is known as the Lungs
of the Earth. This is because it
supplies most of the oxygen for
Earth. Although it gives us oxygen
it will not last forever.