facts about the amazon rainforest.

RAINFOREST

Amazon

It is so big that the UK and Irland can fit in there 17 times!

The rainforests are home to the half of the earths  plant and animal speicies.

The amazon is arbualy longest river in the world at 6,992 km.

The area is 5.5 million km.

The amazon river is the most biggest tropical rainforest.

The amazon rainforest is a moist,broadleaf forest.

The rainforest covers most of the amazon basim in south america.

The basin is 2.7 million square miles while the amazon covers 2.1 million squares of it.

Did you know- There are approximatly 5 million different species of plants, animal and insects living in the amazon.

Rainforests only cover around 2 percent the total surface area of the Earth, but really about 50 percent of the plants and animals on the earth live in the  rainforest.

The amazon rainforest is 55 years old 

It is the biggest of all the caiman species, and is highly aggressive and ill-tempered. Like most very large crocodilians, the black caiman has been known to attack, kill, and eat humans on numerous occasions.