Have you ever
entered a tropical rainforest? It’s a special, dark place completely different
from anywhere else. A rainforest is a place where the trees grow very tall.
Millions of kinds of animals, insects, and plants live in the rainforest. It is
hot and humid in a rainforest. It rains a lot in the rainforest, but
sometimes you don't know it's raining. The trees grow so closely together that
rain doesn't always reach the ground.
Rainforests make up only a small part of the Earth's surface, about six
percent. They are found in tropical parts of the world. The largest rainforest
in the world is the Amazon in South America. The Amazon covers 1.2 billion
acres, or almost five million square kilometers. The second largest rainforest
is in Western Africa. There are also rainforests in Central America, Southeast
Asia, Northeastern Australia, and the Pacific Islands
Rainforests provide us with many things. In fact, the Amazon Rainforest is
called the "lungs of our planet" because it produces twenty percent
of the world's oxygen. One fifth of the world's fresh water is also found in
the Amazon Rainforest. Furthermore, one half of the world's species of animals,
plants, and insects live in the Earth's rainforests. Eighty percent of the food
we eat first grew in the rainforest. For example, pineapples, bananas,
tomatoes, corn, potatoes, chocolate, coffee, and sugar all came from
rainforests. Twenty-five percent of the drugs we take when we are sick are made
of plants that grow only in rainforests. Some of these drugs are even used to
fight and cure cancer. With all the good things we get from rainforests, it's
surprising to find that we are destroying our rainforests. In fact, 1.5 acres,
or 6,000 square meters, of rainforest disappear every second. The forests are
being cut down to make fields for cows, to harvest the plants, and to
clear land for farms. Along with losing countless valuable species, the
destruction of rainforests creates many problems worldwide. Destruction of
rainforests results in more pollution, less rain, and less oxygen for the world
Where would you find the largest rainforest in the world?
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