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The Amazon rainforest is the world’s biggest. Thousands of

plant and animal species live there. It has a complex ecosystem

with four layers. Hundreds of centimeters of rain fall there each

year. There are exotic plants and animals in the rainforest. Some of

them are poisonous. The rainforest produces more than twenty .

percent of the earth’s oxygen. People are trying to protect the .

rainforest because if we destroy it, it could cause problems.

protect the rainforest hundreds of centimeters

plant and animal species more than twenty percent

Unit 5 | The Amazon Rainforest