RAIN FOREST

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RAINFORESTS ARE LOCATED IN…• Belize • Brazil• Colombia• Costa Rica• Peru• Venezuela• Guyana • Suriname• French Guiana• Madagascar• Indonesia

PRECIPITATION

• The average rainforest gets around 250 cm a year

• The constant warm air holds a lot of water vapor causing it to be humid year round

TEMPERATURENormally around 77 degrees

Humid year round

AMOUNT OF LIGHT

The plants near the top (like the canopy area) get more sunlight, they spread their leaves out to absorb more.

The bottom plants get little to no sunlight, they have adapted to be able to receive nutrients from just rain water and not sunlight.

AIR QUALITY• The air is very polluted in most rain forest Areas.

Air pollution is damaging critical rainforests. Rainforests act as pollution

sinks -- a process by which greenhouse gas is removed from the atmosphere -- by soaking up carbon dioxide and neutralizing it. Greenhouse gases are stored there and are released back into

the atmosphere to further contribute to global warming.

NUTRIENT LEVELS52% of nutrients are in the vegetation, while only 48% are in

the soil.Weathering and torrential rain have washed most of the

nutrients away.

COMMON SPECIES

Rain forest cover only 2% of the earth but house over 2/3 of the species.

• Bamboo• Linns sloth• Fruit dove• toco toucan• Vampire bat• Waglers pit viper

ENDANGERED ANIMALS

• d• African forest elephant• Bengal tiger• Orangutans• Silvery gibbon• Harpy eagle