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Rainforest Mitch
1.
2. In a rainforest you can clearly tell
that it rains a lot because of the
name. Each year at least 1500 to
2500 ml of water will come down.
In a rainforest there is no dry
season so if you are planning a
holiday and don’t want to get wet
than you better cancel.
3. In a rain forest it pretty much stays the same. During
the day the temperature is between 30 to 35 degrees
celcius. But during the night it is between 20 to 25.
The reason rainforests are hot and wet is because
they are found near the equator. Which means the
sun directly hit the water and the land. The reason it
rains so much is also because of the equator. It
makes the water evaporate because of the heat and
then it slowly cools and makes rain and that is why it
is always humid and some times raining.
4. Rainforests are located in many
places. Such as Africa, Latin
America, Brazil, Southeast
Asia, pacific
islands, Norway, Japan, Southern
Australia, New Zealand and the
united kingdom. If you don’t know
where that is than look at the
picture behind the text.
5. The reason they are located in
these places is again because
of the equator. The sun hits the
water directly and the water
evaporates into the air. Then
the moist air makes the plants
grow so that is why I is always
so much greenery.
6. In the rainforest there are many trees and
plants even some of the vegetation you eat
for dinner started growing in the rainforests.
For example tomatoes, corn and even
peppers are growing in the rainforest. Some
of the stuff that grows in the rainforest is
shrubs, coffee, rice, coconuts, corn, peppers,
tomatoes, sweet
potato, bamboo, mangrove, strangler fig and
lots more.
7. Mangroves are
amazing trees that
have adapted to their
surroundings.
Mangroves need four
things to survive salt
water, specific soil
type, climate and tidal
movements. There
are more than 50
species of mangroves
which include the red
mangrove
(Rhizophora mangle)
8. Strangler figs got their name
because they grow rapidly
and wrap around other trees
and squeeze them to death.
The reason the strangler fig
kills other trees is because
they are always in a
competition for the sun light
so they don’t just kill for the
fun of it. The strangler tree
doesn’t just squeeze the tree
it also squeezes the roots of
the tree with its roots.
9. In the rainforest there are many animals such as
Spider-monkeys, Macraw, toucan, tree
snail, poison arrow frog, morph-
butterfly, sloth, rhinoceros beetle and many more.
All of them are different in many ways and are
unique. Some of them are at extreme risk of
extinction or under threat. The smartest animal in
a rainforest is a chimpanzee. Chimpanzees are
also under threat so you may only see them in a
zoo.
10. The Rhinoceros beetle you think would be small
because it is an insects. They are 6cm which is this
big.
The rhinoceros beetle is found in south east
Asia, Indonesia , Australia and in tropical places.
When they are disturbed they make a strange hissing
noise by rubbing they’re abdomen against they’re
wing covers. If you find one and it has horns that
means it is a boy and it will be smaller than a female
rhinoceros beetle.
11. The spider-monkey is a very interesting
animal. They can be in Central and south
America from southern Mexico to Brazil.
They’re genes have 7 different species of
monkeys. Both of the black headed spider-
monkey and the brown spider-monkey are
under threat. The spider-monkey is one of
the largest new world monkeys and are only
found in rainforests. The spider-monkey only
forage in the high canopy of the rainforest.
12. Food chains are a great way to know what
animals to avoid unless you are an expert.
For example the squirrel eats the nuts and
then the tiger eats the squirrel. It all works out
well for the tiger but the squirrel had a bad
day.
13. Food webs are all joined.
The anaconda would not
just eat monkeys it will
also eat the squirrel . So
all of the food webs you
see are actually all one
big one.
14. The problem with rainforests are that every
second a part of the rainforest that is the size of a
football field is being destroyed for paper.
In the rainforests Giant bamboo trees grow 9
inches every day. Sloths are so slow that algae
and moss grows in their fur. 80% of the plants
found in Australian rainforests are not found in any
other rainforest. 1 out of 4 of our medicines are
made out of rainforest plants. An approximate
guess is that half of the animal species in the
world are fund in the rainforest.
15. An interesting fact about the rainforest is that
57% of the rainforests all over the world are
located in Latin America. The reason that they
are located in Latin America is because of the
equator. The equator makes the sun directly hit
he water which makes it evaporate into the air.
When it is in the air it helps the greenery grow.
So slowly the greenery will absorb some water
out of the air and the left over water turns into
rain.
