Transcript Forests
Forests By Jayden What is a forest? • There is so much to see in a rain forest, from birds flying though the canopy to fierce the creatures lurking in the undergrowth. • A rain forest is a place with a bunch of trees and gets a lot of rain each year. • It has a lot of plants and animals. The Animals in Forests • Sloths, Toucans, Jaguars, Iguanas, Tapirs, Parrots, Monkeys, Vipers, and Vines. • Sloths are very slow and lazy. They might be the laziest in the world. • They spend 20 hours a day sleeping in the tall rainforest trees. • Sloths have sharp claws to hold onto tree limbs. Toucan and Jaguars • Toucans spend most of their time high in the trees. • They are easy to identify because their enormous bills. • Jaguars belong in the cat family. • Most of these big cats have yellow coats spotted with black rings, but some jaguars are white. Iguanas and Tapirs • There are about 650 different kinds of iguanas. • Some are very small, but the big ones grow more than 6 ft. (2 m.) long. • Tapirs are unusual looking animals. • It has a very large head, and almost no neck, and its nose looks like a short trunk. Parrots, Vipers, and Vines • Parrots are noisy and bright colored birds and have powerful beaks. • They live in high branches in the rain forest trees. • A viper is a poisonous snake. • Its fangs fold up inside its mouth. • Lianas are one of the 1,000 kinds of vines in the rain forest. • Lianas are long and thick and almost as woody as tree branches. Location • Rain forest are found near the equator. 57% of tropical rain forest are found In Latin America. One third of them are in Brazil. Other Tropical Rain Forest are found in Southeast Asia and The Pacific Islands. Temperate Rain Forest are found in UK, Norway, Japan, New Zealand, and Southern Australia. • References • http://www.mbgnet.net/sets/rforest/where.h tm • There are many more animals and interesting facts about the rain forests! • This was fun! • The book was Rain Forests by Dee Philips Vocabulary • Algae • tiny plants with no roots, stems, or leaves. • Basking • lying out in the warmth of the Sun. • Canopy • the highest treetops in a rain forest.