Amazing Rainforests By Shay Mc Cool and Emma

Amazing Rainforests By: Shay Mc. Cool and Emma Kalau

What is a rain forest? . • A rainforest is a place where lots of things grow because they are warm and it rains everyday. • Also a Rainforest covers only 6% of the earth. • They also help keep the earth cool and make the air healthy to breath. • Rainforests are the oldest living communities of life on the planet.

Location of Rain Forests • Rainforests are located in different continents such as North America, South America, Africa, Eurasia, and Australia. • There a lot of tropical rainforests near the equator.

Emergent Layer • There are many animals in the Emergent Layer including the sloth, Harpy eagle, butterflies and parrots. • The trees in the Emergent layer are about 200 feet from the ground. • The leaves and branches of this layer take the most light, heat, rain and punishment from the winds.

Harpy eagles

Canopy Layer • The Canopy is the largest layer of all of the layers. • Many kinds of plants take advantage of the canopy’s light by growing high up in the trees. • Different animals like toucans, spider monkeys, sloths, iguanas, and many others live in the canopy layer.

Monkeys

Understory Layer • This layer is usually dim because most sunlight is blocked by the canopy’s branches and leaves. • Frogs, coatis, iguanas, monkeys, kinkajous, porcupines and ocelots make their homes in the trees and in the plants that go on tree trunks.

Jaguars

• The Rainforest floor is a dark, wet place. • Very little sunlight reaches the forest floor. • Leaves, branches, vines, rotted fruit, and animal leftovers eventually falls to the forest floor. • Animals that live on the forest floor are armadillos, mice, ants, tapirs, earthworms, anteaters, and jaguars. Forest Floor

Deforestation • Many of the foods, medicines, and household items we depend on come from Rainforests. • Rainforests supply us with many foods and products we use every day. • Loggers often destroy all the plants in a patch of Rainforest to get a few trees that they want.

People of the Rain Forest • Certain people have lived in the Rainforest for thousands of years. • Rainforest tribes live in structured communities with their own cultures and customs. • Although they have rights according to international laws, they are often mistreated and their land is stolen or invaded.

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