By: Ashley Morgan

RAINFORESTS

WHAT IS A RAINFOREST?

A rainforest is a forest with many trees, high rainfall, and year-round warm temperatures.

FACTS Rainforests produce 40%

of Earth's oxygen

Rainforests belong to the tropical wet climate group.

The temperature in a rainforest rarely gets higher than 93 °F or drops below 68 °F.

Almost all rainforests lie near the equator.

TYPES OF RAINFORESTS

Temperate

Rainforests

Tropical Rainfor

ests

TEMPERATE RAINFORESTS

Temperate Rainforests have cool temperatures.

There are only 10-20 species of trees that grow here.

PLANTS

Indian Paintbrush

Liana(vines)

Indian Paintbrush

Lianas (vines)

Epiphyte

ANIMALS

Okapi Lemur Poison Dart Frog

TROPICAL RAINFORESTS

Fifty seven percent of all tropical rainforests are found in Latin America.

They have warm temperatures and have hundreds of different kinds of trees.

PLANTS

Jambu Bengal Bamboo Strangler Figs

ANIMALS

Toco Toucan King Cobra Slender Loris

MORE FACTS

Scientists estimate that more than half of all the world's plant and animal species live in tropical rain forests.

About 1/4 of all the medicines we use come from rainforest plants.

A tropical rain forest has more kinds of trees than any other area in the world.

About seventy percent of the plants in a rainforest are trees.

ENDANGERED

Thirty acres of trees are cut in the tropical rainforests every minute.

Rainforests now cover less than 6% of Earth's land.

RESOURCES

http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rainforest.htm

http://www.mbgnet.net/sets/rforest/index.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainforest

http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rnfrst_plant_page.htm

http://relly19.tripod.com/