Soil in the tropical rainforest's is very nutrient poor. The topsoil is only one to two inches (2.5 to 5 centimeters) deep. The only reason plant life is so lush is because the plants store the nutrients in themselves rather than getting them from the soil. When plants decay, other growing plants tap the nutrients from the dead matter and reuse nutrients left over from that plant. This is why farmers can only use the rainforest's soil for one or two years after they clear cut it, before all nutrients are stripped from the soil.The reason the soil so infertile is because it is more than 100 million years old, and has taken a beating from the elements. After time, rain washes minerals out of the soil, leaving it more acidic and nutrient poor. Soil exposed to the heat and condensed sunlight turns it into red clay. Other soils just cannot deal with minerals, and turn it into compounds useless to plants. There are some fertile patches of soil in the rainforest's, but they are scattered throughout the thick vegetation.
soft and crunchy
The Amazon rainforest is a beautiful place. However, its soil is know to be thin and lacking nutrition in some areas.
Very thin and moist
The Amazon rainforest began forming some 9.9 million years ago. what is the rainforest soil like ?
there is rich soil in the amazon rainforest.
there are names like daintree and the Amazon
The soil type in the amazon basin is thicker then then andean rainforest it contains fertile layers of humus, which has three layers and it's contained in the amazon soil...
wet ;)
There are not a lot of nuitreints in it
The Amazon Rainforest is a Tropical Rainforest
The Amazon Rainforest is a tropical rainforest.
chesse!
its rainy because it says RAINforest and why is because your stupid
•The Amazon Rainforest is the world's greatest natural resource - the most powerful and bio-actively diverse natural phenomenon on the planet. Yet still it is being destroyed just like other rainforests around the world. •The problem and the solution to rainforest destruction are both economic. •Rainforests are being destroyed worldwide for the profits they yield - mostly harvesting unsustainable resources like timber, for cattle and agriculture, and for subsistence cropping by rainforest inhabitants.