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=By Elizabeth Jones!=

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 * Things that are good to our rainforests || Things that are bad to our rainforest ||
 * native animals || Logging ||
 * Invasive nimals || weeds ||
 * flora || not a lot flora ||
 * fauna || not a lot fauna ||

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= Rainforest Map! =

What is flora? Flora is a types of plants, trees or flowers. For example, strangular figs and a orchids.

What is fauna? Fauna is a types of animals. For example, Monkeys or Birds. == =Did you know......=
 * = Did you know that giant bamboo plants can grow up to 9 inches a day. =
 * = Did you know that an area of a football feild in a rainforest is being destroed every week. =
 * = Did you know that the trees of a tropical rainforest are so packed that when it rains on the canopy it can take as long as 10 minutes to reach the forest floor. =
 * = Did you know that in the moist rainforests of South America, sloths move so slowly that algae are able to grow in their fur. =
 * = Did you know that some of the plants and trees in a rainforest can grow pineapples, chocolate, sugar, cinnamon and the rainforests give us alot of medicines. =

= What are the two types of rainforests? =
 * = tropical =
 * = temperate =

= Why do they call rainforests a rainforests? = = A rainforest is called a rainforest because of the amount of rainfall they get each year and it is a forest. = = = = What is a rainforest? = = Rainforests are the Earth's oldest living ecosystems. Rainforest have alot of plants, trees and flowers. They get alot of water (rainfall) each year. A rainforest is a evergreen forest with a lot of different sizes of waterfalls. = == =The 4 layers of a rainforest:= =Emergent= =Canopy= =Understory= =Forest Floor=

Forest floor:
===The forest floor is the very bottom part of a rainforest. The forest floor has only a little bit of sunlite because the canopy and the emergent are blocking it from the forest floor. On and in the plants, on the forest floor there is fungi, mold, mosses and herbs that grow on them. The forest floor is known to have the most animals out of all the four layers. The air near the forest floor is hot and humid.===

Uderstory;
===The understory is an amazing partr of a rainforest. The understory has only a s mall amount of light that encourages the plants to think of smart ways to survive. Plants that survive in the understory iare mainly dwarf palms and soft stocked species like the ginger family. Many plants in the understory mainly rely on the inscts to feed them.===

Canpy:
===The canopy is a beautiful part of the rainforest. The canopy is like a big roof of trees. The canopy gets all the sun and light because it blocks the sun and light from the forest floor and the understory. Many leaves in the canopy has shard pointsso some of the water can reach the understory and the forest floor.===

Emergent:
===The emergent is a wonderfull place to see in a rainforest. The emergent is made up of a few wide, tall trees that grow taller than the trees in the canopy. The trees up in the emergent layer are much more windblown than the trees in the shorter layers. Their seeds are spread all over the forest by strong winds and flying foxes. Some trees go leafless for a short period of time.===

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