Question

How much of the world's land area is tropical rainforest?
A) 2%
B) 5%
C) 7%
D) 9%

Answer 1

Hint: Since most of the Earth's land is situated north of the tropics, a comparatively limited region is naturally restricted to rainforests. Tropical forests are confined to the small region of land between 23.5 ° North and 23.5 ° South latitudes of the equator.

Complete answer:
Tropical rainforests cover just 7% of the surface of the Earth, but host more than 50% of the world's wildlife.An area full of tall, mostly evergreen trees and a high amount of rainfall is simply a rainforest.
On every continent except Antarctica, rainforests flourish. The Amazon River in South America and the Congo River in Africa surround the largest rainforests on Earth.

Dense rainforest ecosystems sustain the tropical islands of Southeast Asia and parts of Australia. Also the cool evergreen forests in the Pacific Northwest and Northern Europe of North America are a form of rainforest. Rain forests are the oldest living habitats on Earth, with some existing for at least 70 million years in their present form. There may be as many as 1,500 flowering plants, 750 species of trees, 400 species of birds and 150 species of butterflies in a 10-square-kilometer (4-square-mile) patch

Note: Our world is losing tropical forests equal to the size of Bangladesh last year according to Global Forest Watch. We lost 15.8 million hectares of tropical forests alone in 2017; all told, humans destroyed almost half of the original land cover in the world.