By: Ashley Morgan R AINFORESTS

W HAT IS A RAINFOREST ?  A rainforest is a forest with many trees, high rainfall, and year- round warm temperatures.

F ACTS  Rainforests produce 40% of Earth's oxygen  Rainforests belong to the tropical wet climate group.  The temperature in a rainforest rarely gets higher than 93 °F or drops below 68 °F.  Almost all rainforests lie near the equator.

T YPES OF R AINFORESTS Temperate Rainforests Tropical Rainforests

T EMPERATE R AINFORESTS  Temperate Rainforests have cool temperatures.  There are only species of trees that grow here.

P LANTS Indian Paintbrush Liana(vines)  Indian Paintbrush  Lianas (vines)  Epiphyte

A NIMALS OkapiLemurPoison Dart Frog

T ROPICAL R AINFORESTS  Fifty seven percent of all tropical rainforests are found in Latin America.  They have warm temperatures and have hundreds of different kinds of trees.

P LANTS Jambu Bengal Bamboo Strangler Figs

A NIMALS Toco Toucan King CobraSlender Loris

M ORE F ACTS  Scientists estimate that more than half of all the world's plant and animal species live in tropical rain forests.  About 1/4 of all the medicines we use come from rainforest plants.  A tropical rain forest has more kinds of trees than any other area in the world.  About seventy percent of the plants in a rainforest are trees.

E NDANGERED  Thirty acres of trees are cut in the tropical rainforests every minute.  Rainforests now cover less than 6% of Earth's land.

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