Value in the Rain Forest

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Value in the Rain Forest

• What does the Rain Forest mean to me?

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• Many products come from the Rain Forest.
• One-half of all growing wood on earth is located
  in the tropical rain forests.
• Up to two hundred different types of trees can be
  found growing inn 2.5 acres of tropical rain
  forest.
• The intricate plant systems found in tropical l
  rainforests support a great diversity of insect
  and animal life.
• The rain forest is home to more than half of all
  its living things.

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More Values of the Rain Forest

• Natural Rubber, oil, medicines, food and other
  products come from the rain forest.

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Tropical Forest Pest Control

• Tropical forests help us control pests that
  destroy nearly 40 of our domestic crops.
• Tropical forests also give us beneficial insects
  that control pests which destroy domestic crops.

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Life in the Leaves

• Leaves of trees and other plants are most
  important Chemical factories in the world.
• They provide oxygen and food for human and
  animals.
• There is an interdependence between plants,
  humans, and animals.

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The Worlds Best Gene Pool

• The rain forest accounts for the emergence of
  many new species.
• The tropical rainforests benefit us by providing
  more drug-yielding plants for medicine than any
  other ecosystem.
• Experts theorize that up to 905 of all species
  inhabit rain forests.
• Ancestors of human beings first evolved in rain
  forests.

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Human Reliance on the Rain Forest

• Humans rely on the rain forests for food,
  medicines, and lumber.
• Some products include coffee, bananas, rice,
  chocolate, rubber, wax, and plastics.
• They provide between 25 to 40 percent of all
  pharmaceutical products.

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More Products of the Rain Forest

• Natural rubber comes from rain forest areas.
• Used for surgical gloves, balloons, band-aids,
  sporting goods, sneakers, and chewing gum.

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Tropical Plants give us fibers for

• furniture,
• soundproofing
• insulation

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Palm oil gives ingredients for

• margarine, candles
• cooking oil, candles
• baking goods and soap,

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Some foods from the jungle are

• bananas, rice, avocados, eggplant
• lemons, limes, oranges, cucumbers, tea, cashews,
  pineapples, and papayas.

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Some Spices are

• black pepper, chili, cinnamon, cloves, vanilla,
  paprika, ginger, and nutmeg.