The Natural Environments of Brazil

The Natural Environments of Brazil

            Geography as a field of study presents comprehensive understanding of the world and its features through means that bridge the gap between the factors in existence. The focus of the study on Brazil in the continent of South America and exploring its natural environment present a picture of the riches and strains in its environment. The current trends and transformations are bringing massive changes around the world, due to rapid changes across regions (Del Casino, Knox, Liverman, Marston & Robbins, 2013). Brazil is a country with varied features in its natural environment that attract interests across the globe to understand its climatic conditions, topography and vegetation.

            The country lies in a region that earlier had reference to as a new world with entire landmass lying to the east of the meridian that crosses through North America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean. Just as the other countries within the region, Brazil has vast variety landscape including mountains and the Amazon forests (Del Casino et al., 2013). The larger area of the country and multiple physical features present its economic advantage and larger resource base for people to explore for their activities. The natural resources found in the country’s physical environment have been in existence for an extended period, and the country has been exploring the resources for wealth of its people.

            The Amazon falls within the country and serves as a source of wood with the latest discovery of abundant mineral resources having large iron-ore mines located within the Amazon. The vast plains of the country and its rich soil give opportunities for agricultural activities to thrive.  Its extreme physical environment gives it an opportunity or act as a barrier to the inhabitants and their activities. Brazil presents the opportunity to explore different features that make it unique to it and those that are common to other regions.

            Studying Brazil focuses on a country that is largest in its continent and forms part of the biggest countries around the globe in terms of physical area (Del Casino et al., 2013). The country also has an extensive coastal line on its east bordering the Atlantic Ocean. This serves as a source of water supply that is used for different purposes. As a colony of the past, the country’s boundaries are creations of the European invasion of the continent and scramble for partitioning of the ‘new world’ (Del Casino et al., 2013). The physical environment and human activity handle the geographical adjustments of the country and attributes peculiar to the region.

            Brazil boasts of hosting one of the longest rivers in the world only competing with River Nile that provides sufficient water supply across the country. It is believably carrying a good portion of the total global river water. The tributaries of the river have the consideration by people as rivers due to their sizes and serve different areas and the Amazon with their waters. Other rivers also supply the country with water and drain it to the Atlantic Ocean, supporting the lives of various plants and animals within its territories. Brazil has valleys that support agriculture and lakes that handle the moderation of temperature in parts of the country (Del Casino et al., 2013).

The large lakes have a capacity of absorbing heat from the sun in the day and releasing it at night through the cooling effect. This makes the environment friendly for growing crops by moderating the temperatures. Water bodies provide a source for domestic and industrial use and support agricultural production, transport and source of fish for consumption. Brazil is one of the countries with large agricultural fields and good soil growing a broad range of crops that the climatic condition supports. The country falls on the windward side of Andes and receives sufficient rain to supports its agriculture to produce enormous harvests (Del Casino et al., 2013).

The Narrative on Brazil

            Undertaking the study on the physical environment and phenomena of Brazil is of great importance in understanding changes and activities from the physical resources in the past. Geographers use maps to show distribution of physical features, and other dynamics within a region. Examining Brazil shows the complexity of studying a wider area with vast differences and rich in resources. The principal characteristics of the area give concentration of focus on physical geography to emphasize the main physical aspects of the realm and unique characteristics from the rest of the world (Del Casino et al., 2013).

The country boast of the wider physical area and several natural resources including mineral deposits across its area and friendly weather and soil for agricultural activities for the residents. The perfect soil and environmental conditions gave the country a chance of hosting several crops that originated from other region and supporting their growth (Del Casino et al., 2013). Brazil exports agricultural produce to other countries and still have sufficient to supports its population. Colonialism and slave trade brought about the introduction of new plants in Brazil and set the boundaries in the modern day country from the larger continent.

The alterations by the colonialists included within the country areas that were not sharing any common physical aspects or excluded areas that had commonalities with the regions contained in the country. The Amazon is located in the northern part of the country and provides vegetation and tree plantation distinct to the region. It is recognized globally in terms of its size (Del Casino et al., 2013). The Amazon area is not only rich in plantation, but there is discovery of mineral deposits in large deposits that expose richness in the natural environment of the country and its neighboring states.

There have been alterations in the physical environment of Brazil due to human activities and encroachments, and the climatic condition of the region is likely to be affected by destruction activities. Brazil seeks to explore the internal area of the Amazon basin and other natural resources due to increasing discoveries in the making and urge to boost the economy of the country. Brazil borders several countries in the continent of South America and shares common physical environment and resources such as the climate, the forest cover and water bodies with those countries. According to Del Casino et al., (2013), the country is similar to the continental United States without the states of Hawaii and Alaska.

The rich physical environment promotes survival of different organisms and human activities that depletes them or brings alterations on the resources. The water networks support means of transport, supplements rain for the plantation, and contribute to the activities some of which distort the natural environment. Favorable natural resources and the large size of the country places it to compete with other countries around the globe with its agricultural produce growing immensely over the past decade (Del Casino et al., 2013). The vast resources have boosted industrial produce to surpass agricultural production in terms of export products.

Conclusion

The abundance of natural resources and raw materials provided by the physical environment keep spurring the country industrial activity with competitive high technology companies continuing to explore the available resources. The Amazon River basin in the northern periphery of the country experiences continual exploitation of its natural resources and the activities have continued emerging around the area along its capacities (Del Casino et al., 2013).  According to Del Casino et al., (2013), the river is navigable and supports ocean vessels encouraging exploration of the areas of the country and its resources.

The region of the north is an area of tropical rain forest, one of its kinds around the globe with tropical climate in the coastal areas. Only a small portion of the northern east region is arid. The continual activities that distort and destroy the physical environment present a challenge to the survival of some animals and plants hence threatening the natural coverage. The climate is also likely to vary in the region shortly due to the activities that continually cause environmental threats and degrading the capacity of the natural resource to sustain the original climate. The natural environment however if well maintained has a way of replenishing to ensure that it is supported as opposed to the destruction that leads to total degrading of the environment (Del Casino et al., 2013).

 

 

 

 

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