Amazon River | Facts, History, Location, Length, Animals, & Map ...
4 天之前 · Amazon River, the greatest river of South America and the largest drainage system in the world in terms of the volume of its flow and the area of its basin. The total length of the …
Amazon River - Wikipedia
The Amazon River and its tributaries are characterised by extensive forested areas that become flooded every rainy season. Every year, the river rises more than 9 m (30 ft), flooding the …
Amazon Rainforest | Plants, Animals, Climate, & Deforestation
2024年11月18日 · Amazon Rainforest, large tropical rainforest occupying the Amazon basin in northern South America and covering an area of 2,300,000 square miles (6,000,000 square …
Amazon: Earth's Mightiest River - Live Science
2022年4月5日 · The Amazon River is a massive, intricate water system weaving through one of the most vital and complex ecosystems in the world — the Amazon rainforest in South …
Amazon rainforest - Wikipedia
The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This …
The Amazon Rainforest - WorldRainforests.com
2024年4月4日 · The Amazon River Basin is home to the largest rainforest on Earth. The basin -- roughly the size of the forty-eight contiguous United States -- covers some 40 percent of the …
12 Fascinating Facts About the Amazon River - Treehugger
2024年7月3日 · Its massive volumes of water feed the adjacent Amazon rainforest, make it impossible to build bridges over, and even raise the height of the ocean in the Caribbean Sea.
The Amazon in crisis: Forest loss threatens the region and the …
2022年11月8日 · The Amazon is in crisis as forests are threatened by deforestation, fires, and degradation; surface water has been lost; and rivers are increasingly disconnected and …
Amazon basin | Description, Geography, Conservation, & Facts
2024年10月11日 · The Amazon basin includes roughly 60 percent of the world’s rainforest and harbors 10 percent of the planet’s known forms of life—including more than 40,000 plant …
The Amazon Rainforest - Education
The Amazon Basin supports the world’s largest rainforest, which accounts for more than half the total volume of rainforests in the world. Occupying much of Brazil and Peru, and also parts of …