Geography Oral Presentation on the exploitation of the Rainforest.

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GCSE Geography Oral Presentation

Welcome to my GCSE Geography Oral Presentation on the exploitation of the Rainforest.

Rainforests are dense, warm and wet forests where millions upon millions of plants and animals can be found. Rainforests are very important to human life as they generate most of the oxygen we need.

The majority of tropical rainforests are found between the tropic of Capricorn and the tropic of cancer, which is roughly 1,500 km either side of the equator. They are found in countries such as Brazil, and continents such as Africa and south East Asia.

STOP : PICTURE…here is a picture of where the rainforests in the world are.

These tropical rainforests usually almost have constant rainfall and get around 2 meters of rainfall over a year. This is about 1 1/2 inches of rain each week. The reason for this rainfall is to do with convectional thunderstorms. The temperature in a rainforest never freezes and never gets very hot. The range of temperature in a tropical rainforest is usually between 24-27° C.

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STOP! Picture.

Here you can see a graph representing the temperature and rainfall over a year.


Tropical rainforests cover about 7% of the Earth's surface and are very important to the Earth's ecosystem. The rainforest trees and plants also remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in their roots, stems, leaves, and branches, they replace this with oxygen. Without this removal of Co2, serious global climatic problems could become more frequent in the future. Rainforests affect the , which traps heat inside the .

Groups that are exploiting the rainforests include logging companies and Soya ...

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