Tropical Rainforest
By: Angelica Dimal
Tropical Rainforest
ISSUU Shanghai
Table of Contents Types
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Forest Layers
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History
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Plants
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Maps
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About The Author
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Glossary and Bibliography 8
Types Lowland Equatorial Evergreen Rainforest A forest that receive high rainfall every year. It has more than 2000mm or 88 inches. The largest area of the rainforest is in the Amazon Basin of South America, The Congo Basin of central Africa, Indonesia and New Guinea. Moist Deciduous and Semi Evergreen This rainforest receive high overall rainfall in the wet summer season and cooler winter dryer season. They are found in parts of South America, Central America, The Caribbean, in coastal west Africa, Indian sub-continental and Indochina. Montane Rainforest This rainforest is also called clod forest and this forest is found in cooler mountain areas. Flooded Rainforest has seven types of ooded rainforest that is from Tambopata reserves in Amazonia Peru.
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Forest Layers The tropical rainforest are separated to four different layers and each of them has different types of animals and plants. The layers are forest floor, Understory layer, Canopy and Emergent layer. The Forest Floor This layer has animals called Okapi, Tapir, Sumatran rhinoceros, a western lowland gorilla. The Understory Layer This layer has a lot of animals like birds, small mammals, insects, reptiles and predators. The predators are leopard, poison dart frogs, ring tailed coati, boa constrictor and coleopteran. The Canopy Layer This layer is a layer that covers up the two other layers. This layer has most of the largest trees that is 30 to 45 m high. The Emergent Layer This layer is a layer that has less large trees called emergent that is 45 tom55 m high. The types of trees they have
Baliza, Elegans, Dipteryx, panamensis, Heironyma alchorneoides, Hymenolobium.
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History The tropical rainforest has been around for millions of years. This forest is located in 5 regions on earth. Tropical America, Africa, south East Asia, New Guinea and Australia. It is found between 30 degrees N and 30 degrees South. The tropical rainforest help mountains global weather patterns and rain. When some water evaporates from the trees it falls on other areas. The Tropical Rainforest is warm every year because temperature changes day and night. The average temperature in the tropical rainforest is 70 degrees to 85 degrees Fahrenheit or 21 to 30 degrees Celsius. When it rains, the rain is about 60-200 inches every year.
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Plants The types of plants that are usually found are called Epiphyte. Epiphytes are plants that live and grow on a surface with other plants and on branches. These plants can grow on trees that have an average sunlight in the canopy. In the tropical rainforest there are a lot of types of orchids found there. All of the trees in the forest can usually live for 50-100 years. Most trees have thin and smooth bark because they don’t need thick bark because they don’t get wet. Since the trees have smooth bark, it hard for epiphytes to grow on the surface. If you find a 10 km area in a rainforest, there are 1500 kinds of flowers, plants and 750 tree species. In the Rainforest, some plants are carnivorous because they have cavity with a sweet nectar to attract insects.
Maps The rainforest is located in Central and South America, Western Africa, Eastern Madagascar, Zaire basin, Indo Malsia along the west coast of India, Assam, Southeast Asia, New Guinea and Queensland, Australia.
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About The Author The girl who wrote this books name is Angelica Dimal. She was born in Bruni
but now lives in Shanghai, China but she is more of a Australian and Filipino
person because her father is Australian and her mother was Filipino. She is a
ďŹ fth grade student in Mr. Hanlins class. The reason she wrote this book is because she was interested of what type of plants and animals were there.
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Glossary Evaporates: When a liquid turns into a vapor Predators: When an animal eats another animal Epiphyte: When a plant grows on another plant.
Bibliography "Tropical Rainforest." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 28 Jan. 2014. Web. 28 Jan. 2014. "KDE Santa Barbara." KDE Santa Barbara. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Jan. 2014. "Children's Tropical Forests - Facts (Rainforest Plants)." Children's Tropical Forests Facts (Rainforest Plants). N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Jan. 2014.
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