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Victoria lynn Neathery
RAINFOREST
Characteristics
The temperature hardly
changes.
Rainforests are the wettest
areas of land.
All plants in the rainforest
take carbon dioxide.
Many medicines are from the
rainforest.
Bananas and guavas are
some fruits in the
rainforest.
Some furniture is made from
rainforest plants.
Location
Rainforests are found
in areas of South
America , North
America , Africa , Asia ,
and Australia.
Plant life
 Plant adaptations enable
tropical plants to live in the
hot , humid ,and wet
conditions of the tropical
rainforest .
 Here are some of the plants
that live there, Double
coconut s, Banyan tree ,
Coccaloba , Talipot palm ,
Freycineta , Phillipine fig ,
Peacock plant , Panama –hat
plant , Gnetum , Buahinia ,
Fishbone cactus , Sacred fig
,American mangrove , LangIlang , Screw pine and the
giant bamboo.
Animal life
 There are many kinds of
animals in the rainforest.
 Some of them are the
anteater , Cock of the rock ,
the Dragonfly , the
Emerald tree boa , the
Gorilla , the Hummingbird,
the Iguana , and the Jaguar
(They weigh over 200
pounds) .
 Leaf cutter ants are also
found here and they cut up
the leaves with their teeth.
Resources
 Life in the rainforest by barbara taylor
 http://www.mbgnet.net