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Rainforest
By:
Andrea Garcia
Aaron Adams
And Charlie Miller
Rain fall + precipitation
•Monthly temp. 64F
•Precipitation 100 inch
Medicine of the Rainforest
• One in every four ingredients in modern
medicines are located in the
rainforests.
• These include vincristine which treats
leukemia in children and trumpet
flowers whose pollen can open airways
during asthma attacks although if it is
used incorrectly it can cause death.
Food web
Types of Plants
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Bengal Bamboo
Bougainvillea
Curare
Coconut Tree
Durian
Jambu
Kapok Tree
Mangrove Forests
Strangler Figs
Tualang
Animals
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Africa Forest Elephant
Bengal Tiger
Chimpanzee
Common Palm Civetor Musang
Dawn Bat
Golden Lion Tamarin
Harpy Eagle
Jambu Fruit Dove
• King Cobra
Animals cont.
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Kinkajou
Linn's Sloth
Orangutan
Proboscis Monkey
Red-shanked Douc Langur
Silvery Gibbon
Slender Loris
Sumatran Rhinoceros
Toco Toucan
Vampire Bat
Wagler's Pit Viper
Human Influence
• Every second a football sized part of
the rainforest is cut down.
• That means 86,400 football sized areas
are cut down every day!
• In the beginning there were 6 million
square miles of the rainforest existed
now only 2.6 million square miles remain
due to human influence.
Amount of light
Light is available at the top
of the canopy but not in the
lower areas.
Efforts being made
• The Nature Conservancy is currently working with its
partners to protect tropical and temperate rainforests in 23
countries throughout North America, Central America,
the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific.
• Google is working with an indigenous tribe deep in the
Amazon rainforest to protect their native lands from illegal
encroachment
Quiz
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What is the average rainfall yearly?
Name one animal.
Name one plant.
How much light is there?
What percentage of plants are used for
medicine?
Works cited
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www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rainforest.htm
www.Savetherainforest.org
www.newworldencyclopedia.org/
http://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/rai
nforest_ecology.html