... on each other. The top of the forest controls how much light and water reach the lower layers. On the forest floor, insects and other decomposers recycle the nutrients that creatures in the upper layers need to survive. The Emergent Layer The rainforest usually supports one or two giant trees per acre that towers above all the other plants. The tops of these emergents sprout above the dense jungle like huge umbrellas ... . Emergents are often about 115 to 150 feet tall, but some can reach up to 250 feet, as high as a 25 story building. The emergents are the oldest trees in the rainforest...

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... and man is behaving like a virus. Some third world countries clear cut the land with a slash and burn technique to build roads or highways such as the massive Brazilian superhighway. This highway stretches to one end of Brazil to the other. However as with many of these roads it leads into the jungle and just ends. Billions and billions of trees and animals are killed ... need land to support their own growing populations. These countries are unable to build sky scrappers so they spread their cities into the jungle. These homes are merely shacks not really like a home though. All of the...

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... Brazil are extensive, and developed rapidly once capital and adquate transportation facilities became available in the 1970's. Coal is mined in Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, and elsewhere. A gold rush like in America is in the Amazon Jungle, it has been unabated since 1979, has made Brazil one of the world's largest producers. The country's iron deposits, at Itabira and elsewhere, are one of ... the world's richest. Iron-ore output was about 213 million metric tons in the early 1990's, which made Brazil the world's second largest producer (Encarta, Brazil). In conclusion Brazil ......

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