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How do rainforests help plants?
Rainforests also prevent soil erosion and regulate water flow, which can help prevent flooding. Without plant cover, erosion and heavy rains sweep the soil into rivers. The trees have deep roots, and when they are torn out and replaced with crops that are planted anew each year, the roots can’t hold onto the soil.
Why are plants important to the tropical rainforest?
The rainforest plants provide food and shelter to the animals that live in the rainforest. They are also taking part is the gaseous exchange. Rainforest plants provide the basic supply of oxygen in the world. A humid environment is important for the growth of tropical rainforest plants.
What do plants do in the rainforest?
The Plants of the Rainforest. More than two thirds of the world’s plant species are found in the tropical rainforests: plants that provide shelter and food for rainforest animals as well as taking part in the gas exchanges which provide much of the world’s oxygen supply.
Why are rainforests beneficial?
As well as the vivid beauty that comes with great diversity in plants and animals, rainforests also play a practical role in keeping our planet healthy. By absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing the oxygen that we depend on for our survival. The absorption of this CO2 also helps to stabilize the Earth’s climate.
What is the advantages of tropical forest?
Improved transportation – new roads and airports. Better transportation means easier access to raw materials like minerals and timber. Rainforest resources can be transported away and sold. Infrastructure, hospitals and education can be improved from the money gained from selling natural resources.
Why the rainforest is important?
Why do rainforest plants have large leaves?
The extra insulation makes it harder for the leaf to extract heat from the surroundings at night. But large leaves can cope in hot, wet, tropical climates because they counteract the daytime heat-trapping effect using transpiration – something desert plants cannot do because they cannot afford to lose that much water.