The main reason FOR exploiting a tropical rainforest would be the products we get out of it -> pretty orchids for our gardens, the products of plants that can be used as food or medice (1/4 of all medicine comes from the rainforests), the exotic animals, the timber than ccan be used for building, etc.
Replaced agriculture with factories
The water cycle consists of three major processes: evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. Evaporation is the process of a liquid's surface changing to a gas. In the water cycle, liquid water (in the ocean, lakes, or rivers) evaporates and becomes water vapor.
Farm land are being lost because companies are using them to build houses over them