The Language of the

Rainforest

HOPE YOU ENJOY!!!

By Emily D

IntroductionDo you know

about the rainforest? The Amazon Rainforest is really amazing. The rainforest is sometimes referred to as the lungs of our planet. If you read this book you will learn why. And you will learn about the people, plants, and animals of the rainforest. Last but not least you will learn the language of the rainforest.

Land cover and climate

The Amazon rainforest stretches

along the Amazon river and both stretch the Guyana. Its absolute location is 0 degrees longitude 15 degrees longitude 75 degrees latitude 45 degrees latitude. The Amazon is in the west north and south hemispheres, in South America. The yellow part of the map is the parts of the Amazon rainforest that were deforested or cut down. The green is the rainforest left. There used to be 14% rainforest and covering the earth and there is now only 6%.

Many people are working to conserve the rainforest.The Amazon rainforest’s climate is wet and damp. The Amazon has an average rainfall of 60-175 inches of rain a year and the temp is 85-90 degrees farenheight. The climate map shows the rainfall and heat and temp.

LayersThere are four main layers of the rainforest.

Each one is different from one another and each one is home to different animals and plants. The forest floor is first it is at the bottom so it’s dark and damp. It is habitat to jaguars and tapirs and capybaras. The plants in the forest floor are mainly the trunks of trees, small shrubs, and maybe some grass. The next is the understory. It is semi dark and damp. It is habitat to monkeys, spiders, and jaguars are also found there. The plants in the rainforest are small shrubs, and some trees. The next layer is the canopy it is light and really wet. The canopy is habitat to monkeys and birds. The Venus fly trap is indigenous to the canopy. The last is the eminent. It is the home to monkeys, hawks, and bugs.

The Venus fly trap

The Amazon rainforest has many plants. One of them is a Venus fly trap. The Venus fly trap is green and has a mouth looking thing in the front for flies to fly in. The plant relies mostly on flies it needs water to because half the year flies are not around. The fly trap is green and that helps with blending in with the canopy. This is one of the many adaptations the fly trap has. Another one is the fact that the Venus Fly Trap can survive with little water. The plant is located in the canopy and understory. The Venus fly trap is used to keep flies away. Most plants are considered producers or organisms that make their own food through photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is when a plant makes its own food with the sunlight and carbon dioxide.

The piranhaThe Piranha is one of the

most feared animals in the rainforest. Perhaps because it can skin a cow in 30 seconds. Perhaps it is because people have to

sacrifice a cow or some other livestock before the cross a river. The answer is unknown but if you look past all those things the piranha is really amazing and without it the food web would be broken. The piranha is a medium sized fish that is gray-blue to olive green. Its razor-sharp teeth are used to eat. The piranha lives in the Amazon River. The piranhas swim in pacts when danger is near. That is one adaptation. The prey of the piranha is mainly small fish and turtles. Piranha’s are nomadic that means they don’t live in one place. They have mobile homes. The main enemies of are fish and people.

The tikunaThe Tikuna live in the rainforest. To be more

specific, in Peru. They a have a different culture then us. The Tikuna know how to make medicine out of trees

and leaves. To get food the Tikuna hunt. Though 1 person may go hunt for days he might not catch anything. All tribes

have pets. The pets help them hunt and have fun.

Kids learn to farm at the age of 6 and each kid is

responsible for their part of

the land. The Tikuna eat a variety of stuff. They eat plants and animals and grains.

The Tikuna village is set in a circle around a big eating house. Tribe members are considered omnivores with means they eat plants and animals. To make their houses they us wood,

leaves, and grass. The daily live for a Tikuna tribe person is get up hunt or go to the field and work all day, come back eat,

then go to bed.

OrchidThe orchid is a flower in the

rainforest it is a producer. It makes a flower during the year

that varies in color. People love the plant because it is a lovely center piece. The orchid has pedals that are all different colors and the plant makes food through its foliage or leaves. When all plants die they go to the decomposers who break down the dead plant, this has no difference. The orchid rainforest. The orchid does not need a particular climate, just anything above freezing. That is one of the orchid’s adaptation, another one is they can be different colors so their predators might mistake it for a poisonous flower.

Jaguar

The jaguar is the biggest cat in the rainforest. It is golden with black spots. It has long legs. That is one adaptation but there are many more. Another adaptation is their sharp teeth. The jaguar is a consumer that means it does not make its own food. It has a diet of turtles to tapirs. It sometimes eats spiders and bugs. The jaguar lives in the forest floor and understory. The jaguar is a carnivore. It eats meat. If it were an herbivore it would eat vegetation. The jaguar is a found all over the rainforest. The neat thing about the jaguars is that they are not afraid of water. The Aztecs worshiped the jaguar. They thought it was the totem animal to the god Tezcatlipoca. The jaguar was not just a part of Aztec mythology it was part of Maya and many smaller tribes. They jaguar is prey to mainly humans. Although the jaguar is protected it is still in danger.

The yanomami

g the The Yanomami is a tribe in the rainforest. They live in many villages. The Yanomami live in huts called maiocas. They sleep in these huts. The Yanomami village is set like the Tikuna. The Yanomami can use the trees and plants to make

medicine. To get food the Yanomami hunt monkeys and jaguars and tapirs. The kids build bows and arrows at the age of 6 and go hunting at the age of 8. The girls and boys

learn to farm at the age of 6. The Yanomami have a tradition that when they die they burn the body. Then they take the bones and crush them into a powder. Then they add water and they family members drink them so they are with them forever. The yanomami use many resources of the rainforest like the nuts and bananas and oranges, all local food. With the Indians, they use mud to use camouflage to blend in.

Saving the rainforethe rainforest is great spot for ecotourism which is touring the rainforest without doing damage.

People get around in the rainforest by cars, horses, boats, and planes. But that is not the only movement, ideas

move too. Ways that these move is by people coming from North America and teach the south American people stuff. They also trade, sell, and

buy. The settlers from Europe are mainly Portages and Spanish people. The rainforest affects humans by giving us air, pencils, wood, paper, and food. We affect the rainforest by deforestation, ecotourism,

and conservation.

finThe rainforest is super amazing. It is home to more then 50% of the worlds plants and animals. It is the lungs of our planets. If we destroy it a vital part of our food web will be gone. Do you really want this

to happen? Help me!

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