Transcript Rainforests2

What is a rainforest?
• A very special place with the greatest
variety of plants and animals found
anywhere on Earth.
• A noisy place because of all the insects,
birds and animals.
• A colourful place with beautiful flowers.
• A hot, wet place.
• A place made up mainly of trees. It looks
like a huge carpet of broccoli from above.
• An evergreen place.
Where are the Rainforests?
• Rainforests grow where it is always
hot and wet.
• These places are always near the
Equator.
• The largest rainforest is in S America
and includes the River Amazon.
Rainforests
What plants live there?
• Plants of all shapes and sizes grow
everywhere.
• There are ‘layers’;
– Emergents, the highest layer made up of
very tall trees.
– Canopy, like an umbrella or roof of
leaves.
– Understorey, a shady layer below the
canopy. Smaller trees are here.
– Shrub layer, dark because of the canopy
and understorey.
– Forest floor or Undergrowth, a very thin
layer of soil, useless for growing crops.
Which animals live there?
• Canopy
– Toucans and Macaws
with specially shaped
beaks to find and eat fruit
and nuts.
– Squirrel Monkeys, Sloths
and giant flying squirrels
all adapted to climb and
hang on to the tallest
trees.
– Snakes frogs and lizards
climb and slither round
the branches. Ponds
form in the angles of
branches where the frogs
can swim.
Which animals live there?
• Understorey
– Gorillas, Leopards,
Monkeys and
Chimpanzees, many
of these are
camouflaged to
protect them from their
enemies or to stop
their prey from seeing
them.
Forest Floor
• Plants here must
like the shade and
dampness. There
is no grass. Insects,
such as ants, like
the mosses, dead
leaves and twigs on
the forest floor.
Next we have images of the
wonderful creatures, and some
people, that you can see in the
rainforest
We all live in the rain forest.