1. By: Ashley Morgan R AINFORESTS

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

3. F ACTS  Rainforests now cover less than 6% of Earth's land.  Tropical rainforests produce 40% of Earth's oxygen  Rain forests belong to the tropical wet climate group.  The temperature in a rain forest rarely gets higher than 93 °F or drops below 68 °F.  Almost all rain forests lie near the equator.

4. T YPES OF R AINFORESTS  There are two types of rainforest  Temperate  Tropical  Tropical rainforests are found close to the equator.  Temperate rainforests are found along coasts in the temperate zone, such as the Pacific Northwest of the USA.  Both are endangered.

5. T EMPERATE R AINFORESTS  Temperate Rainforests have cool temperatures.  There are only 10-20 species of trees that grow here.

6. T ROPICAL R AINFORESTS

7. 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.

8. E NDANGERED  Thirty acres of trees are cut in the tropical rainforests every minute.  Because of habitat destruction, many plants and animals have become "island dwellers”.

10. R ESOURCES  http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rainforest.htm http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rainforest.htm  http://www.mbgnet.net/sets/rforest/index.htm http://www.mbgnet.net/sets/rforest/index.htm  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainforest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainforest