The Amazon Rainforest

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The Amazon Rainforest

• A tour through one of the most beautiful and
  exciting places in the world!

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What is a Rainforest?

• A tropical rainforest is a forest that has many
  trees, a very warm climate and plenty of
  different wild life!
• Rainforests can be found in many places on the
  globe, most located near the equator. The
  largest rainforest of them all is the Amazon
  Rainforest!

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Here is a map of the world. The orange areas are
where rainforests can be located. The red line
is the equator. Which continent has the most
area covered with rainforests?Image provided by
http//www.geocities.com/rainforest/5798/map.gif
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A rain forest is home to thousands and thousands
of trees of all different types and sizes.
Because the rainforest has such a unique
arrangement of its trees, the trees have been
classified into five different levels. The
Emergent trees at the very top grow the highest
above any of the other trees in the rainforest
and get the most sunlight. The lowest layer
called the Forest Floor is very dark and wet.
Many of the animals and insects that can only
climb on the ground will live here. This area
gets the least amount of sunlight.Image provided
by cobwebsandseaslugs.com/rainforests/
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The Canopy
Where do you think you could find most of the
plant and animal life in the rainforest? Its
not the Forest Floor, but actually the Canopy!
The Canopy is the unique feature rainforests
have! Many monkeys, frogs, lizards, birds,
snakes, sloths and small felines (cats) live in
this area! About 70-90 of all the living
species in the rainforest live in this one
area! Image provided by www.freewebs.com/.../eco
systemandgeography.htm
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Animals of the Rainforest
This is a Spider Monkey which is actually quite
large in size. They like to hang upside-down and
swing from branch to branch. The Spider Monkey
spends most of the time in the canopy.
There are 40 different types of Toucans. They
have large colorful bills in a combination of
colors. The bills is used to smash fruits and
berries for the bird to eat. The toucan also
lives in the canopy.
The sloth is an extremely, slow-moving animal
that lives in the trees of the canopy. The sloth
can have two or three toes. Sloths are nocturnal
and sleep during the day. Some sloths can live
in the same tree for years!
The Poison Arrow Frog has bright colors to warn
other animals that they are poisonous. One frog
carries enough poison to kill 100 people! They
can be red, blue or yellow in color.
Images and information from http//www.srl.caltech
.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/wha
t.html
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What is the climate like?

• The Amazon Rainforest is almost always raining
  and can receive up to 80 inches of rainfall a
  year!
• The weather is very humid with temperatures
  resting between 75 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
  (Summer weather)

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People of the Rainforest

• Those that live in the rainforest depend on the
  environment to survive. They use nature to help
  with food, shelter and medicines.
• Kids in the rainforest have different hobbies
  than you. The kids play outside in the forest
  and the rivers and streams. They dont watch TV
  or play video games, but do many of the same
  things you do. The kids help their families with
  chores and go to school.
• At an early age, kids learn how to fish, hunt and
  collect materials and food that are found in the
  forest.

Image and information from http//kids.mongabay.co
m/
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Rainforests are important to us all

• The rainforest has many trees. Trees help
  produce oxygen to the rest of the world. Humans
  and animals need oxygen to survive. Since there
  are so many trees in the rainforest, this
  environment is very important to life.
• The trees provide shelter to a majority of the
  animals living in the rainforest. Some of these
  animals are endangered and are close to becoming
  extinct.

Image provided by savannahmakay/Places.html
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What is happening to the Rainforest?

• Sections of the rainforest are disappearing
  everyday. This is called deforestation. Humans
  are cutting down areas for the use of lumber,
  clearing land for new farms or for road
  construction.
• Sadly, a part of the rainforest the size of New
  Jersey is cut down each day!
• The plants and animals that live in the areas
  that are cut down eventually die or must move to
  find a new home.

This is a picture of deforestation
Image provided by blogs.tnr.com/.../archive/2008/
06/10/137013.aspx
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Sources

• Images
• artsonearth.com/.../mother-earths-jungles.html
• http//www.geocities.com/rainforest/5798/map.gif
•  cobwebsandseaslugs.com/rainforests/ 
• www.freewebs.com/.../ecosystemandgeography.htm
• students.umf.maine.edu/.../Assignments/dl.html
• http//www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainfo
  rest/Edit560s6/www/what.html
•  blogs.tnr.com/.../archive/2008/06/10/137013.aspx
• savannahmakay/Places.html
• www.alaska-in-pictures.com/rain-forest-clouds...
• Information
• http//kids.mongabay.com/
• http//www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainfo
  rest/Edit560s6/www/what.html
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• Sounds
• http//www.christiananswers.net/kids/sounds.html