Picture -- Biomes of the World

Introduction    Task     Process    Tours    Conclusion

Introduction

In the Amazon rainforests 1,600 species of birds and about 1,000,000,000 species of insects. There are five times more bird species in the Amazon. In the Amazon, there is coffee, cashews, cocoa beans, and chicle. The oil of the cocoa is used in suntan lotions, cosmetics, and soap. They also grow rubber trees that produce latex for making tires. Kapok trees have silky waterproof fibers used for life preservers, pillows, upholstery, and installation. Since 1959 there are now 37,673,665 hectacres of national forests and parks in Brazil. If 1 Hectacre. =. 2.471 Acres, that means that Brazil has over 93 million acres of protected forests and parks!

Information on Disappearing Rainforests

Before You Begin Your WebQuest -- Follow the InterActive Adventures Below!

Remember to Refer Back Here and to the Information Link (Link 1) as you journey on your WebQuest!

• General Rainforest Information

• Great "ThinkQuest" on the animals, plants and people of the Rainforests

• Travel to the Rainforests of Brazil and Costa Rica.

• Brazil Environmental Sanitation Agency (CETESB) - in English and Portuguese
• Where Are the Rainforests
• Forests For Life - a World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) campaign to save the forests
• Rainforest Action Network
• Tropical Rainforest Coalition
• The Wilderness Society - organization devoted primarly to public lands protection and management issues
• The Earth's Rainforests - Stevenson Press, Inc.
• Biomes of the World -- Great Rainforest Information