You are getting ready to learn about the Tropical Rain
Forest. The Tropical Rain Forest is an unique environment. It is
a home to more than 30 million species of animals and plants. Most
animals that live or stay in an understory of canopy leaves in a rain forest
never leaving or touching the ground. Some of the animals that live
in the rain forest are jaguars, tussock moth, keel-billed toucan, frogs,
monkeys,and
many other animals. The high temperature for the rain forest is 75
degrees Fahrenheit. The low is 24 degrees Celsius. The
rain forest receives 100 to 400 inches of precipitation in a year.
The rain forest is mostly in South America including the countries of:
Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, and Brazil. Many of
the trees have food on them like nuts, berries, and fruit. Other
trees have flowers. Did you know that orchards come from the rain
forest? They can be found on
canopy
levels of the rain forest. Some of the plants
in the rain forest are cassias, Dhaks, shellseeds, tabebuias, ferns, orchids,
mosses, bromeliad, and cacti are epiphytes. An epiphyte is a plant
that grows on other plants and send no roots to t he ground. There
are 30,000 types of epiphytes in the rain forest. There is no plant
outside the rain forest is known to exist the way an epiphyte is .
There’s not only plants but there are trees. The trees reach to the
height of 250 feet. Some types of trees are the strangler figs.
Some of the facts about the rain forest are:
1) Many of all the birds in the world migrate there.
2) Many of the frogs are bright and shiny
3) Many birds and insects spread seeds through out the
forest instead of the wind.
4) Many of the plants are used to make medicine
5) Tropical means equator
6) The rain forests are being destroyed
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