Deforestation Of The Rainforests

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Deforestation Of The Rainforests
By Jeremy, Jill, Tlyer, Kendra, and Ryan
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Introduction
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Forest floor

• The ground level
• Reptiles, insects

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Under Story

• The area above the forest floor but below the
  leaves.
• Mammals, animals, insects, birds

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Canopy

• The tree level
• Birds, marsupials, insects,

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Emergents

• The uppermost protruding trees of the forest
• Mainly birds

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The Amazon

• Rainforest is divided into 4 parts.
• 75 of the world's animals and plants live there.
  
• The rainforest is home to over 80,000 plant
  species and 30 million animal species, most of
  which are insects.

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Amazon Continued

• The rainforest is in a continual process of
  rejuvenation and change
• 70 of all cancer fighting plants are found in
  the rainforest.

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History About The Amazon

• HG Societies live there
• Species gathered in the warm and humid
  environment, avoiding the perils of freezing
  ice-age temperatures during the ice age
• Stable climate of the region Cradle of evolution
  

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Causation for Deforestation

• Greed
• Human Expansion
• Large scale hunting of exotic animals
• Trading rare goods
• 70 causation due to lumber

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Effects From Deforestation

• Animals and plants species become extinct daily
• Native People lose not only their land but also
  their culture and heritage
• We lose medicine and vaccines that came from the
  plants
• The ozone becomes depleted

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More facts

• 6-9 million indigenous people inhabited the
  Brazilian rainforests in 1500. In 1992, less than
  200,000 remained.

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What We Lose

• 86,000 hectares (214,000) per DAY an area
  equivalent to New York City
• 1 hectare (2.4 hectares) per SECOND equal to two
  U.S. football fields
• 31 million hectares per YEAR an area larger than
  Poland

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Solutions

• Governments step in
• Alternate building materials
• Watch what you buy
• Follow the three Rs

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Conclusion

• The Amazon
• Causes
• Effects
• Solutions

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Paradigms

• Structural-Functionalism
• Manifest Cheap lumber and other products
• Latent Lose entire cultures, lose cure for
  cancer, kill mother Earth
• Disjunction Extinction of animals and plants,
  global warming, Death

• Social Conflict
• Society is materialistic but they want to protect
  the rainforest

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