TROPICAL RAINFOREST BIOME

TERRAIN

• Consists of 3 layers
• Ground story contains foliage,roots and ground animals
• Understory contains several animals small vines, trees and plants
• Canopy consists of large treetops, birds and flying creatures

CLIMATE

• The weather is very humid
• The rainfall is about 250 cm per year
• The average temperature is about 80 degrees
• The rainforest is rainy because it's close to the equator

ANIMALS

• Rainforest has wide selection of animals
• Those include monkeys, toucans, sloths
• Jaguars, lots of different types of insects, birds and frogs

PLANTS

• The rainforest has Thousand of different types of plants
• Many different types of plants include ferns, vines mosses
• There's also hundreds of different kind of flowers

NATURAL DISATERS

• Natural disasters include
• forest fires, flooding droughts, and mudslides

Interesting FACTS

• Giant bamboo plants can grow up to 9 inches a day
• One out of four ingredients in our medicines is from a rainforest plant
• Bats are essential for pollination of many tropical plants such as bananas
• 80% of the flowers in Australian rainforest are not found anywhere else
• Flying animals in Asian rainforest include frogs and squirrels