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What does it mean if rainforests are sometimes called the lung of the earth?
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∙ 15y ago
The Amazon Rainforest has been described as the "Lungs of our Planet" because it provides the essential environmental world service of continuously recycling carbon dioxide into oxygen. More than 20 percent of the world oxygen is produced in the Amazon Rainforest.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 15y agoRainforest's have an abundance of trees and trees give out oxygen, therefore, rainforests give oxygen to the body, called Earth, just as lungs give oxygen to the human body. However, it's not completely true. Trees give out oxygen during the day, trough photosynthesis process, taking carbon dioxide from air to transform into celulosis they need to grow. But they take oxygen back during from the air during the night. Growing trees take more carbon dioxide than oxygen. Mature forests, instead, have a neutral balance between the carbon dioxide they take and the amount they give back to the air, as well as the amount of oxygen. That's why planting new trees (to use the wood, to replace the forest or to make paper, for instance) produce more oxygen and take more carbon dioxide from atmosphere than just keeping the old forests. As a matter of fact, the real lungs of the earth are the oceans, where the algae (see wikipedia) make photosynthesis and extract carbon dioxide from the air to grow, and provide food to the fishes and other aquatic animals, so that this carbon don't come back to the atmospere.
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∙ 14y agoBecause of so many trees producing more oxygen for the rest of the world.
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∙ 15y agobecause there is so much trees. their breathing in carbon dioxide and they give out oxygen. this is the respiration process.
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∙ 15y agoBecause of so many trees producing more oxygen for the rest of the world.
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∙ 14y agoBecause of the water vapor in the atmosphere
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∙ 12y agoi gess because there is always lots of trees in a forest and its always raining
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∙ 12y agoBecause it is so huge, and most people know that trees turn carbon dioxide into oxygen during the day. However at night, they do the opposite.
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