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Slide 2 Tropical Rainforest Erin Howard, Jon Barton, Morgan Windsor, and Kelsey Myers Period 2 January 2011 Slide 3 Location South America Madagascar South east Asia Congo river basin Brazil Central America Slide 4 Animals Slide 5 Tree Snail Can climb high up in a tree from predators. Can blend with the bark and leaves. Slide 6 Spider Monkey Long arms, legs, and tail to help climb trees and get food. Slide 7 Noisy Night Monkey Nocturnal and arboreal so it can catch its prey at night. Slide 8 Plants Slide 9 Bengal Bamboo Can be very tall. Can suck up extra water to prevent a flood. If people arent careful, they could go extinct. Slide 10 Coconut Tree Can be 50-85 feet tall. Fruit has a hard outside. This tree is facing extinction. Slide 11 Duran Tree Can live for a very long time. Can be very tall. Flowers can attract animals because of the odor. Slide 12 Kapok Tree Can grow up to 150 feet or more. Drought deciduous Flowers attract bats. People make canoes out of the trunk. Slide 13 Strangler Figs Important to animals. Can be very tall. Faced with logging and fires every year. Slide 14 CLIMATE. Rarely gets higher than 93* or drops below 68*. Humidity 77% and 88%. There are no seasons. Yearly tropical rain forest produces 40% of the earth oxygen. Slide 15 PRECIPITATION. The rain drops 50 to 260 inches a year, The rain fall is often more than 100 inches. Slide 16 Land and Agricultural uses Some uses are bananas, vidous, mosses, and willows. Soil- Nutrient poor and acidic. Plants in the rain forest grow very close together and contend with the constant threat of insect predators, They have adapted by making chemicals that researchers have found useful as medicines. Slide 17 Tourist attractions The tropical rainforest is great for hiking. You might want to take some water though because the hikes can be long. You can also camp. You should prob. Find a cabin to stay in though, unless you want to get wet and be eaten by bugs. Slide 18 Tourist attractions You can take canopy tours in helicopters or you could zip line through the forest. There is scuba diving that you can participate in that is in the oceans right beside the rain forest, so you might see some unique animals that youve never seen before. Slide 19 Environmental concerns Every year Brazil chops down an area of the forest the size of Nebraska. 50 million acres of rain forest are cut down every year.