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The forest floor is very dark.There is almost no plants.Hardly no sun shines down here,that means plants to decay quickly.Giant anteaters live here.

The Understory A little bit of light shines down in the understory so the plants can grow large leaves that can reach the sunlight.The plants in the understory can grow up to 12 feet.Many animals live here e.g. jaguars,red-eyed tree frog &leopards.There is a large number of insects.

The Canopy This layer is primary also forms a roof out of tree leaves to cover two of the layers.Most trees in the canopy are smooth oval leaves that come to a point.There is a maze of leaves & branches.Alot of animals live here when & still food was abundant.The animals live here are snakes,toucans and tree frogs.

The Emergent This is the tallest layer in the rain forest.Emergent trees are 200 feet above the forest floor with trunks that measure up to 16 feet around.Almost all these are wide leaves,hardwood evergreens.Sunlight is plentiful in the emergent.Animals taht live in the emergent are eagles,monkeys,bats & butterflies.

__Australian Tropical Rainforests.__

__Tropical rainforest__
====Australian's most luxuriant rainforests are between Cooktown and Mackay in Queensland.These tropical rainfporests support the greatest density of plants and animals of all Australian rainforests.In the northern Queensland are members of the northern Queensland are members of atleast a quarter of all Australian plants general.That includes over 90 per cent of all our epiphytic orchid species and over half the ferns.vast member of all shapes ans sizes are in turn dependent on this botanical diversity.====

__Characteristic features of tropical rainforests include:__
* atleast three storeys of trees forming an uneven,non uniform canopy. massed flowers and fruits produce directly on the trunk of many trees,and arrangements known as cauliflory or stem flowering.
 * many different tree species contributing to the canopy.
 * thick woody vines which interlace the overlapping crowns of rainforests tree.
 * plank buttresses which provide support for the trees in shollow soils.
 * high density and diversity of large vascular epiphytes,such as orchids,avoids and ferns.Epiphytes depend on other plants for physical support,but coolect their moisture and nutrients from the surrounding air and litter that they collect.

__Warm temperate rainforests__
Compared with tropical and subtropical rainforests,warm-temperate rainforests grow at higher altitudes,in cooler climates and on less fertile soils.They occurs from northern QLD's.They key features of warm-temperate rainforests are order and uniformity.T most characteristic species of these rainforests are coachwood a relative of the NSW christmas Bush,sassfras and various members of the family Lauraceae.On slightly more fertile soils,or in southern,cooler locations,the southern sassafras maybe more common.A the southern end of the range,lilly pilly replaces coachwood.

__Charactistic features of warm-temperate rainforests include:__

 * two tree layers usually present.
 * vegetation less diverse than in subtropical rainforests with three to 15 species making up the canopy layer.
 * leaf size on average smaller than in subtropical rainforests leaves are usually simple and with toothed margin.
 * absence of buttresses.
 * thick woody vines replaced by thin wiry vines.
 * palms and stranglers rare or absent.
 * ferns common.

__Cool temperate rainforests__
Structurally simpler than warm temperate rainforests,these silent,usually dump forests favour high altitudes,cooler climates and high rainfall.Often cloaked in mist for days on end,the dominant trees usually have a thick coat of mosses,liverworts,ferns and lichens.

__Characteristic features of cool temperate rainforests include:__

 * Simple structure,often with only one species in the upper canopy and few species in the lower layer.
 * Small average leaf size of trees,leaves are simple and feature toothed margins.
 * palms and stranglers absents.
 * buttresses are absent,but the bases of trees are sometimes massive.
 * tre ferns,ground ferns and 'mossy' epiphytes common and obvious.

__Gondwana Rainforests Of Australia__
Gondwana rainforests of Australia,formerly known as the Central Eastern Rainforests Reserves of Australia (CERRA), are located predominantly along the Great Escarpment on Australia's east coast.They contain outstanding geological features around shield volcanic craters,and a high number of rare and threatened rainforest species.These are of international significance for science and conversation and these rainforests have been inscribed by the United nation as a World Heritage Site.

__Rainforests of Madagascar__
__Range__: The island of Madagascar lies off the east coast of Africa. __Habitat:__ It is the one place on earth that has lemurs and many one-of-a kind plants and animals. __Animals:__ __The mouse lemur__ lives mostly up in the trees.They are one of the smallest lemurs and eat insects and plants at night.They curl up to sleep in the daytime. __The ringtailed lemur__ is the most common lemur you might see at the zoo.They spend much of its time on the ground.They travel in groups,eat fruits and leaves.One of the strangest and least-known relatives of the lemurs is the nocturnal __aye aye__.It uses its weird,long claw-like middle finger to tap tree bark in search of insects and grubs to eat.Other lemurs include the brown lemurs,black lemurs,black white and raffed lemurs,coquerals dwarf lemurs,red-fronted brown lemurs,weasel lemur and red-ruffed lemur. __The tiny tenrec found only in Madagascar,searches the rain forest floor for insects to eat.Animals find many ways to avoid being eaten in the rainforest.Some insects,like the grasshopper,have spiked armor that keeps prediators away.The orange frog stands out against the green folige.So do the pink flastids,feeding on the juices of plants.If they are disturbed,the flastids will drop to the ground like rose petals.__ __Plants__ The forests are full of palms,orchids and a now famous flower called the rosy periwinkle.This little pink flower was dicovered to cure a serious disease called childhood leukemia.

__Rainforest Information for Kids__
__What are Rainforests__ __About Rainforest__ As for we children,we understant that Tropical Rainforests are forests with all trees,warm climates,and lots of rain.In some rainforests it rains more than one inch nearly everyday of the year. Rainforests are found in Afica,Asia,Australia and Central and South America.The largest rainforest in the world is the Amozon rainforest in South America. __Where are Rainforests located?__ Rainforests are found in the tropics,the region between the tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn,just above and below the Equator.In the tropic zone the sun is very strong and shines about the same amount of the time everyday all year long.keeping the climates warm and relatively stable. __What makes a Rainforests?__ Rainforests lies in the tropics which receives 80 inches of rain per year.It has a canopy which has layers of branches and leaves formed by closely.In most rainforest plant and animals life is not found on the forest floor,but it makes the richest habitat for plants and animals life.Forset floors is often dark and humid due to constant shade from the canopy's leaves.Forests floor is where decomposition takes place in the process by which fungi and micro-organisms break down dead plants and animals and recycles essential materials and nutrients. Rainforest is also made from animals and plants,which is mammals,birds,reptiles and amphibians,insects and plants. People also lives in rainforests who are the dwellers lives in small settlements during hunting and gathering.There have been great civilization.Native people have an incredible knowledge of medicinal plants,with remedies for everything from snakes bites to tumors.And people uses plants to treat,illness and disease.And as well as healing powers. Kids in the rainforests don't watch tv,use the internet,or play video games but they plays with friends,help their families with chores and go to school.From early age they learn to fish,hunt and collect materials and food from the forests.There are several reasons thhey lives of forest people are changing.When forests people resist these developments,they matbe ridiculed,arrested,forcibly moved,or even killed.Rainforests are very important to our ecosystems and provides a home to stabilize the world's climates.Provides a home to many plants and animals,maintains drought,and erosion,are a source for medicines and foods,and support tribal people and are an interesting place to visit.Rainforests are callled the lungs of the planet for their role in absorbing carbon dioxide a greenhouse gas,and producing oxygen,upon which all animals depends for survival.

__How I or We Can Help__
About half of the world's rain forests are gone forever,either destroted or severely damaged and still destruction goes on.The greatest damage is due to clear-cutting for industrialization processes,such as logging,cattle ranching,farm lands,highway construction,oil drilling,dam building,and mining. To save our rainforest have taken many forms.To awareness through public education and media attention.If u are cutting down any amount of trees then u have to plant back more plants.

__Reasons for Logging__
Logging is done for so many reasons,which is making timber,paper,medicines,jewelleries,fuel,cottons for clothes,alcohol,chemicals,rubber,fruits,oils and waxes for cosmetic products and foods and so on.

__Rainforest Ecosystem__
The sudden removal of its plants disrupts the rain forest's ecosystem and,consequently,the global ecosystem.Carbon dioxide levels rise,which increases the ability of the atmosphere to trap heat by admitting solar energy and preventing some surface heat from escaping out of the atmosphere.This in turn causes the global warming commonly known as the //greenhouse effect.//And increased carbon dioxide emissions are not the only effects of rain forest deforestation.Habitats are lost,species become extinct,rainfall increases,flooding and erosion occurs,climates changes and crops fail.

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