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TROPICAL RAIN FOREST By: Aryanna Grayson & Tiani Anderson

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TROPICAL RAIN FOREST

By: Aryanna Grayson & Tiani Anderson

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GENERAL INFORMATION A tropical rainforest is a biome type that occurs

roughly within the latitudes 28 degrees north or south of the equator (in the equatorial zone between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn

About ¼ of all the medicines we use come from rainforest plants

The largest rainforests are in the Amazon River Basin (South America), the Congo River Basin (Western Africa), and throughout much of Southeast Asia

Small rainforests are located in Central America, Madagascar, Australia and nearby islands, India, and other locations in the tropics

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FACTORS Abiotic Biotic

Soil

Water

Rocks

Sunlight

Warm Climate / Weather Precipitation

Rubber and Bamboo trees

Sloths

Anteaters

Poison Dart Frogs

Lemurs

Bromeliads

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DOMINANT PLANTS: EpiphytesOrchidsBromeliads

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DOMINANT WILDLIFE:

Hummingbirds Monkeys SnakesFrogs

Bats PossumsFoxKangaroos

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GRAPH

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GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION The tropical rain forest biome is located in Central

and South America, South Asia, Africa and Australia. It is found in most equatorial areas. We are specifically looking at the Tropical Rain Forest of the Amazon in South America.

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INTERESTING FACTS An area of a rainforest the size of a

football field is being destroyed each second.

The trees of a tropical rainforest are so densely packed that rain falling on the canopy can take as long as 10 minutes to reach the ground.

Some rainforest monkeys are omnivores, eating both animals and plants.

1 out of 4 ingredients in our medicine is from rainforest plants.

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QUESTIONS?1. Do birds migrate to rainforest?

2. How do rainforest affect the Earth’s climate?

3. What products do we use in our daily lives that originate in rainforests?

4. What medicines have something to do with the tropical rainforest?

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RESOURCES G, Michael. (2001). Tropical Rainforest.

Retrieved from www.blueplanetbiomes.org

Gebauer, Mrs. Products from the rainforest. Retrieved from www.mrsgebauer.com

Regents of the University of Michigan. The Tropical Rain Forest. Retrieved from www.globalchange.umich.edu