What is a Tropical Rainforest? A rainforest is a large, dense forest
... are the young trees and shrubs that make up the understory. The plants in this layer rarely grow to large sizes because the canopy blocks out most of the sunlight. The forest floor is where the least amount of light reaches in a rainforest so this is where you will see shade loving plants, fallen le ...
... are the young trees and shrubs that make up the understory. The plants in this layer rarely grow to large sizes because the canopy blocks out most of the sunlight. The forest floor is where the least amount of light reaches in a rainforest so this is where you will see shade loving plants, fallen le ...
Tropical rainforest
A tropical rainforest is a biome type that occurs roughly within the latitudes 28 degrees north or south of the equator (in the equatorial zone between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn). This ecosystem experiences high average temperatures and a significant amount of rainfall. These rainforests can be found in Asia; Australia; Africa; South America; Central America; the U.S. of Florida and Hawaii; as well as Mexico and on many of the Pacific, Caribbean, and Indian Ocean islands. Within the World Wildlife Fund's biome classification, tropical rainforests are a type of tropical wet forest (or tropical moist broadleaf forest) and may also be referred to as lowland equatorial evergreen rainforest.