Essay Archive - Jungle and The Rain Forest
Jungle and The Rain Forest
Jungle and rain forest are terms that are often used synonymously but with
little precision. The more meaningful and restrictive of these terms is
rain forest, which refers to the climax or primary forest in regions with
high rainfall (greater than 1.8 m/70 in per year), chiefly but not
exclusively found in the tropics. Rain forests are significant for their
valuable timber resources, and in the tropics they afford sites for
commercial crops such as rubber, tea, coffee, bananas, and sugarcane. They
also include some of the last remaining areas of the Earth that are both
unexploite....
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