Transcript Tropical Rain Forest

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Tropical Rain Forest
• What Makes Up The Rain Forest
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Rainfall
• Drizzles and Pours Everyday
• Lush and Wet World
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Rain Forest Wildlife
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Frogs
Bromeliad
Sloth
Eagle
Monkeys
Peccaries
Caiman
Tapir
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Parts of the Rain Forest
• Canopy
• Understory
• Forest Floor
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Canopy
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The top layer of trees.
Thick leaves bask in the sunlight.
Home for bats, bees, hummingbirds, butterflies.
Covered with plants that grow in sunlight.
Trees that are 60-120 feet tall.
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Understory
• Smaller trees and plants growing under the canopy.
• Shadowy.
• Woody vines grow up towards the canopy.
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Forest Floor
• At ground level.
• Ferns and palms.
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Plants Used for Food & Medicine
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Bananas
Avocados
Pineapples
Peppers
Peanuts
Periwinkle Flower
Cacao
Latex
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Other Types of Rain Forests
• Montane = Grows on mountainsides, rain turns to mist
because of cooler air.
• Temperate = Along west coast on North America. Get more
15 feet of rain a year.
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Negative Effects of Man to the Rain Forest
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Clearing of trees.
Raising cattle on rain forest land.
Trees can not re-grow.
Trees cut for lumber.
Roads are built through the rain forest.
Mines and Dams are built.
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Ashish
Delhi
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