Tropical Rain Forest

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Tropical Rain Forest

• What Makes Up The Rain Forest

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Rainfall

• Drizzles and Pours Everyday
• Lush and Wet World

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Rain Forest Wildlife

• Frogs
• Bromeliad
• Sloth
• Eagle
• Monkeys
• Peccaries
• Caiman
• Tapir

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Parts of the Rain Forest

• Canopy
• Understory
• Forest Floor

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Canopy

• The top layer of trees.
• Thick leaves bask in the sunlight.
• Home for bats, bees, hummingbirds, butterflies.
• Covered with plants that grow in sunlight.
• Trees that are 60-120 feet tall.

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Understory

• Smaller trees and plants growing under the
  canopy.
• Shadowy.
• Woody vines grow up towards the canopy.

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Forest Floor

• At ground level.
• Ferns and palms.

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Plants Used for Food Medicine

• Bananas
• Avocados
• Pineapples
• Peppers
• Peanuts
• Periwinkle Flower
• Cacao
• Latex

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Other Types of Rain Forests

• Montane Grows on mountainsides, rain turns to
  mist because of cooler air.
• Temperate Along west coast on North America.
  Get more 15 feet of rain a year.

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Negative Effects of Man to the Rain Forest

• Clearing of trees.
• Raising cattle on rain forest land.
• Trees can not re-grow.
• Trees cut for lumber.
• Roads are built through the rain forest.
• Mines and Dams are built.