RAINFORESTS

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RAINFORESTS
BY WILLIAM CLARKE
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INTRODUCTION
Rainforests are massive areas of bushland filled
with wild plants and wildlife creatures such as
bugs, snakes, elephants, birds and lots more.
There are plants such as daisies, dandelions,
daffodils and lots more again.
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LEVELS

• There are three parts to rainforests
• The Canopy the top of the trees, (the cover).
• The Understorey the tree trunks and vines.
• And the Forest floor the floor of the forest.

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Animal purposes

• Each animal has a special job in the rainforest
• The bugs mix the leaf litter to create more
  trees.
• The animals also mix the leaf litter by standing
  on it.
• And the birds make the lovely music.

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What is a Rainforest?

• Rainforests are very dense, warm, wet forests.
  They are havens for millions of plants and
  animals.
• Rainforests are extremely important in the
  ecology of the Earth. The plants of the
  rainforest generate much of the Earth's oxygen.
  These plants are also very important to people in
  other ways many are used in new drugs that fight
  disease and illness.

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Rainfall

• It is almost always raining in a rainforest.
• Rainforests get over 80 inches (2 m) of rain each
  year.
• This is about 1 1/2 inches (3.8 cm) of rain each
  week.

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LOCATIONS

• Australia
• America
• New Guinea
• China
• New Zealand
• South America
• Canada

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TROPICS

• There are two tropics in the world
• The tropics of Cancer and the tropics of
  Capricorn.
• The Capricorn tropics are boarded in the Northern
  Hemisphere and the tropics of Cancer is boarded
  in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Nepenthes

•                                       Pitcher
  plant vines in the family
• Nepenthaceae have leaves that form a pitcher,
  complete with a lid.
• Sweet or foul-smelling nectar in the pitcher
  attracts insects, especially ants and flies, that
  lose their grip on the slick sides and fall into
  the liquid.                    
                                        

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Chimpanzee

• The intelligent, social chimpanzee has a wide
  range of sounds and gestures for communication
  and is probably one of the most expressive of all
  animals.
• Thickset and robust, but more lightly built than
  the gorilla, the chimpanzee has a strong body and
  long limbs, the powerful arms being longer than
  the legs. Its hands and feet are narrow and long,
  with opposable thumbs on the hands. Males are
  slightly larger than females.  

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