ecosystems

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  • geography ecosystems.
    • regulating
      • ecosystems can control the environment
    • provisioning
      • ecosystems provide things for us
        • medicine
        • new animals
        • new plants
        • new discoveries
    • a big sponge
      • the rain forest acts as a big sponge as it ...
        • soaks up the rain
        • soaks up the moisture
    • non-timber forest products.
      • products from rain forests/ forests that are not made from wood
        • medicine
        • cotton
    • medicine
      • the US national cancer institute belive that
        • there are over 1,430 types of tropical plants that could treat cancer
    • rain machine
      • the amazon makes half of its own rain fall
      • the rainfalll in the forest evaporats off the forest serfaces
      • relesases 20 billion tonnes of moisture to the atmosphere every day.
      • provides benifits to south america
        • the rain helps to grow crops in central // south Brazil and northern Argentina.
    • carbon storage
      • increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is creating the earth to get hotter
        • global warming
      • carbon-dioxide comes from a range of different things.
        • burning fossil fules
          • oil
          • coal
          • gas
        • cars
        • aroplanes
        • electricity production.
      • rainforests can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere..
        • photosnynthesis
          • they take in carbon dioxide and give out oxygen
            • this means that the amount of carbon-dioxide is reduced as it is stored in the leaves.

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