Rainforest

RAINFORESTVictoria lynn Neathery

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 , Lang-Ilang , 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