rainforest3

Rainforest #3

By: VICTORIA, TREVOR, LOGAN, and KIT

= The Tropical Rain Forest is known for it's rain, humidity, and thriving life. In the Rain Forest, it, obviously rains practically everyday. There is about 100-400 inches, or 9-30 feet, of rain fall each year. Evaporation is a key point to all the rain in the rain forest. As the rain comes down, it evaporates into steam. As everyone knows, it rises into the air, and as it rises, it cools, and comes back down as rain. The proccess gets repeated over and over again. The average temperature in the Rain Forest is more than 20 degrees celcius. Many scientists believe that by destroying the Rain Forest, we make the earth potentially warmer. Without the rain forest causing so much eveaporation, and making so much rain, it causes a green house effect. Rainforests are destroyed by loggers (people who cut down trees) and over populated humans needing homes. The rain forests are mostly located in South America, Africa, and most islands. The tropical rain forests are located in the Tropics. Tropical rain forests are around 23.5 degrees north of the tropic of cancer and 23.5 degrees south of the tropic of capricorn. In this particullar spot on the earth, the solar radiation is most intense. Keeping this in mind, the wettest places on earth tend to be the warmest places on earth. = = = [] ** Animals of the Rainforest **

=** Toco toucan- **** The toco toucan is the largest toucan in the rainforest. It is 24 to 26 inches tall! It is as tall as about two rulers stacked on top of each other vertically., **** Harpy Eagle: **** This is the flying predator of the rain forest with a 7 ft wing span huntong through the tree tops eating any thing it can find., **** Jambu Fruit Dove: **** The Jambu fruit dove is a plump fruit ** ** dove with a small head and a small yellow or orange beak. **= 
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 * Ground Animals **

**The rain forest is a home to many animals. Some of the mammals indigenous to the rain forest are bats, chimpanzees, jaguars, lemurs, leopards, mice, opossums, sloths, and squirrels. The reptiles that live in the rain forest include lizards, snakes, and turtles. Some amphibians are frogs and salamanders. Insects include ants, beetles, butterflies, snails, spiders, and termites** 

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​ Threats:

The tropical rain forests are in constant danger of loggers, and human beings in general. Humans cut down the rainforests to make more houses, expand their land, build roads, make mines, etc. As they do this, many animal habitats are being destroyed which could eventually lead to mass extinction of many of the species of the rainforest. Humans need to stop destroying rainforests so this does not happen. Also, the cutting down of rainforests can make the air hotter which can increase global warming.Also, there is competition between animals. It's eat or be eaten for them. "WHAT CAN WE DO TO HELP TO SAVE THE RAINFORESTS? ." //The Garden Of Eaden//. Web. 26 Feb 2010. .

__ Work Cited __

Green, Jen. //Rainforests//. New York City: Joanna Lorenz, 1998. Print.

Lisowski, Marylin, and Linda C. Jones //Science Explorer: Environmental Science// Needham, MA: Pearson, Prentice Hall, 2005. Print.

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Cite everything here and we’ll put it in the video later ( in the last slide) CITATIONS:

Logging pic 1: "Logging in the Chocó Rainforest." //Logging in the Chocó Rainforest//. Web. 24 Feb 2010. .

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