Rainforest

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Rainforest

• By Doran Logsdon

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Rainforests

• Rainforests are very dense,warm, wet forests that
  are havens for millions of plants and animals.The
  plants in the rainforest generate much of Earths
  oxygen. But that is not the only use of these
  plants, some are used to make new drugs that
  fight disease and illness.

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Where are rainforests?

• Tropical rainforests are located in a band around
  the equator, mostly in the area between the
  Tropic of Cancer (23.5N Latitude) and the Tropic
  of Capricorn (23.5S Latitude). This 3,000 mile
  wide band is called the Tropics. Tropical
  rainforests are found in South America, West
  Africa, Australia, Southern India, and Southeast
  Asia.

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Animal Life

• Many species of animal life can be found in the
  rainforest. Most species have one common
  characteristic, that they adapt to life in
  trees.
• Insects make up the largest single group of
  animals that live in the tropical rainforests.
  They include butterflies, mosquitoes, stick
  insects, and huge colonies of ants.

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Plant life

• Plant lie on the forest floor receive 3 of the
  light the light that filters through the the
  canopy..

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Layers of the rainforest

• There are four very distinct layers of trees in
  a tropical rain forest. These layers have been
  identified as the emergent, upper canopy,
  understory, and the forest floor. Emergent trees
  are spaced wide apart and are 100 to 240 feet
  tall with umbrella shaped canopies that grow
  above the forest. The upper canopy of 60 to 130
  foot trees allow light to be easily available at
  the top. The understory consists of 60 foot
  trees. The forest floor is usually completely
  shaded, except where trees have fallen and light
  shines through.

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Deforestation

• About 2,000 trees per minute are being cut down
  in the rainforest. If this keeps up many animals
  and plants will become extinct.

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Some random facts

• Giant bamboo plants can grow up to 9 inches a
  day.
• The trees of a tropical rainforest are so
  densely packed that rain falling on the canopy
  can take as long as 10 minutes to reach the
  ground.
• In the moist rainforests of South America, Sloths
  move so slowly that algae are able to grow in
  their fur.

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Conclusion

• If we keep destroying our rainforest we will lose
  hundreds of plant species and animals alike.

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Bibliography

• http//www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/rainfore
  st/
• http//www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/rainfore
  st/animals/Rfbiomeanimals.shtml
• http//www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainfo
  rest/Edit560s6/www/where.html

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