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Welcome
to the Amazon. Enjoy your stay!
Learn more about:
Geography
History
Climate
tropics
past
present
future
Flora
Fauna
Culture
The River
Pollution
Deforestation
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Climate - Influence of
Climate in the Past |
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The Amazon has a
rich diversity of plants and animals. It is a haven for
thousands of species of plants and animals. The reason
the Amazon has great biodiversity is due to the last Ice Age
which occurred approximately 2.5 million years ago. When
large glacial ice masses encroached upon the continents, places
like the Amazon rainforest became a refuge for creatures because
year-round temperatures stayed pretty constant and the forest
had warm weather, very hospitable for many plants and animals.
Animals generally moved towards the tropics by locomotory means
such arms or legs. Plants moved more slowly because the
only way they could move is by seed dispersion. When plants
disperse their seeds, they let them out all over. Seeds
that were dispersed more closer to the tropics and the Amazon,
had a better chance of surviving than those seeds that were dispersed
away from the tropics. |
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