Phoebe

**Directions:**
==**Please use the following readings to write ten facts on the rainforest. I would like facts that pertain to the following categories: medicine,** inhabitants of the rainforest (plants or animals), products produced from the rainforest and people that live or work in the rainforest including cultures and tradition.==

**How does the destruction or abuse of the rainforest affect animals, plants or people?**

 * Use the following resources: The Great Kapok Tree (pg 364-377) and the three short stories. Please include pictures or videos in your findings.**


 * Alaska has a very fragile environment. If there are problems in an oil-producing region, oil supplies can shrink and prices can climb. So they invented the pipeline. The oil companies that built the pipeline had to build an entire network of roads to supply and maintain it. Minerals the plants use for nutrition were damaged by chemicals, harmed the plants and animals that eat the plants. Populations have shrunk, but other species are recovering.**


 * There are many kinds of forests. Parts of these places are home to tropical rain forests,and it's home to more than half of the wildlife on earth!! Rain forests are home to 30,000,000 species of animals and plants. There are still many plants and animals yet to be discovered. The Amazon rain forest is home to more species than anyone imagines, including parrots, jaguars, monkeys, and piranhas.**

**Directions:**
==**Please use the following readings to write ten facts on the rainforest. I would like facts that pertain to the following categories: medicine,** inhabitants of the rainforest (plants or animals), products produced from the rainforest and people that live or work in the rainforest including cultures and tradition.==

**How does the destruction or abuse of the rainforest affect animals, plants or people?**

 * Use the following resources: The Great Kapok Tree (pg 364-377) and the three short stories. Please include pictures or videos in your findings.**


 * Alaska has a very fragile environment. If there are problems in an oil-producing region, oil supplies can shrink and prices can climb. So they invented the pipeline. The oil companies that built the pipeline had to build an entire network of roads to supply and maintain it. Minerals the plants use for nutrition were damaged by chemicals, harmed the plants and animals that eat the plants. Populations have shrunk, but other species are recovering.**


 * There are many kinds of forests. Parts of these places are home to tropical rain forests,and it's home to more than half of the wildlife on earth!! Rain forests are home to 30,000,000 species of animals and plants. There are still many plants and animals yet to be discovered. The Amazon rain forest is home to more species than anyone imagines, including parrots, jaguars, monkeys, and piranhas.**


 * Trees absorb the carbon dioxide we exhale and turn it into oxygen we need to breath. The amount of carbon dioxide has increased in the past 150 years.**