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=__**What is a rainforest?**__=

A rainforest is a evergreen with an annual waterfall which is about 406 centimetres high! Rainforest are often, but not always located in the tropical regions
=**__Why is it called a rainforest?__**=

It is called a rainforest becauuse of the high amount of waterfall it has. The annual waterfall is at least100 inches tall and often much more.
=__**Why is the rainforest so important to us people?**__=

The rainforest is so important to us beccause the amount of trees it has contains oxygen for animals and humans to breathe.
=There are two different types of rainforest and they are called the tropical rainforest and the temperate rainforest.= = = =__**Where in the world are the rainforest found?**__= ==The tropical rainforest are found near the equator where temperatures and the rainfall are high all year around. The major areas of the tropical is South East Asia, West Africa and South and Central America. The best known rainforest is located in the Tropical regions which is between the Tropic of cancer and Capricorn.==

==The temperate is located near the coast of the temperate zone. The most largest temperate rainforests is located in the North America's pacific coast and it is stretched from California to Canada. The temperate rainforest has one long wet winter and spring and has a dry, foggy summer.==

=__**What lives in the rainforest?**__=

=__**What are the four different layers in the rainforest?**__=

There are four main layers in the rainforest and they are called:

 * ==Emergent layer- it is very sunny up there because it is way at the top of the rainforest.==
 * ==Canopy layer- the rain is stopped by the foliage which is thick. Most of the trees grow to this height. There are plants that grow to this height too, their roots don't touch the ground and they are called air plants.==
 * ==Understory layer- there are lots of vines and dense vegetation, but there is not much light.==
 * ==Forest floor- it is dark and damp and there are lots of dead leaves,twigs and dead plants too. There is not much sunlight because of the trees above are covering the sulight. It is estimated that only 2% of sunlight recahes the forest floor.==

For example:
=**__Intersting facts:__**=
 * ==medicine==
 * ==chocolate- chocolate is made from cocoa and cocoa pods grows on the trees in the rainforest.==
 * ==sugar==
 * ==spices- includes ginger,allspice,pepper,cinnamon,coconut,vanilla,turmeric and paprika.==
 * ==Did you know that more than 20% of the world's oxygen comes from the Amazon rainforest?==
 * ==Rainforests covers only 6% of the Earth's surface yet they contain MORE THAN HALF of the world's plants and animals species.==
 * ==Rainforest are found on every contient execpt for Antarctica.==
 * ==A four mile patch contains as many aas 1,500 flowering plants, 750 species of trees, 400 species of birds and 150 species of butterfly.==
 * ==The trees tropical rainforest is so densly packed that rain falling on the canopy can touch the ground in just 10 minutes.==

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