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 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.

4. T YPES OF R AINFORESTS Temperate Rainforests Tropical Rainforests

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

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

7. A NIMALS OkapiLemurPoison Dart Frog

8. 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.

9. P LANTS Jambu Bengal Bamboo Strangler Figs

10. A NIMALS Toco Toucan King CobraSlender Loris

11. 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.

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

13. 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  http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rnfrst_plant_page.htm http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rnfrst_plant_page.htm  http://relly19.tripod.com/ http://relly19.tripod.com/