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my knowledge of rain forest = media type="custom" key="19044204" align="center" = =** well a rainforest can be called a dense jungle. The reason they call it "rain" forest is because the high amount of rain fall it gets per year. The climate of a rainforest is very hot and humid so the animals and plants need to learn to adapt. The rainforest has 4 layers the forest floor,understory,canopy and the emegent layer **= =media type="custom" key="18917490"=

= = =** Compared to a city, a tropical rainforest is quiet. Tall trees tower over you, making you feel small. But if you listened carefully, you can hear animals.Frogs ribet and parrots screeh. Insect click. A peice of bark falls. You can look up at a tree thats taller than a ten-story building. Howler monkeys hoot and roar.Tropical rainforest are a special kind of forest. They only grow in the tropics. The tropics is the area just north or south of the equator. The equator is an imaginary line. Like a belt,it cicles Earths middle.earths largest patches of tropical rainforest are in Brazil, Zaire and Indonsia. Tropical rainforest also grow in other places like Mexico, Central America, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Madagascar. **=

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= =** Tropical rainforest contain many bird species. Expert birdwatches can find 300 birds a day.Thats more than they may see in a year elsewhere. In peru, a scintest found 43 different species on one tree. that tree had more ant species than the whole of finland! tropical rainforest have so many specias that may not have been studied yet. **= = =











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= = = Warm temperate rainforests receive over 1300mm of rainfall per year. They have 2 layers, consisting of a fairly even canopy of trees and a lower layer of tree and ground ferns, though these are not plentiful. There are usually only 3 to 15 tree species, with slender, even trunks, marked with circular patches of lichen. =



























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