TROPICAL RAINFOREST

WHERE IS IT FOUND?

• Central and South America
• Western Africa
• Eastern Madagascar
• Zaire Basin
• New Guinea

HOW MUCH OF THE EARTH DOES IT COVER?

• 6-7 percent

TEMPERATURE

• 70 to 85 Fahrenheit
• 21 to 30 Celsius
• It is hot in the rainforest the animals have to cool off

RAINFALL

• 80 to 400 inches
• 200 to 1,000 cm

PLANT LIFE

• Epiphyte
• Orchids
• Brome liads & lily pads
• Broadleaf trees
• Woody vines & lianas

ANIMAL LIFE

• Monkeys & ants & chipmunks
• Ladybugs & frogs
• Parrots & stickbugs
• Butterflys & deer
• Mosquitoes & mice

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HOW ARE HUMANS HURTING THE RAINFOREST

• People are cutting down trees
• Thirty acres of trees are cut in tropical rainforests every minute!
• People are polluting the rainforest

HOW CAN WE HELP THE RAINFOREST

• Use both sides of paper
• Cut down less trees
• Plant a tree for every one you cut down
• Plant more trees

FUN FACT
25% of natural medicine has been discovered in the rainforest.

FUN FACT
Scientists think there are millions of plants and animals still to be discovered in the rainforest.