Tropical Rainforest

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Tropical Rainforest

• Todd Jackson and Brittni Jones
• 2nd Period
• Ecology

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Climate

• Average temperature 77 degrees
  Fahrenheit
• Temperature NEVER DROPS BELOW 64 degrees
  Fahrenheit
• ( Because the plants are not adapted to frost)

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Location

• CENTRAL AMERICA
• THE AMAZON
• AFRICA

• SOUTHERN ASIA
• AUSTRALASIA

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Characteristics

• Rainforest covers less than 6
• Produces 40 of worlds oxygen
• ¼ of the worlds medicine comes from the
  rainforest
• It Rains about 90 days a year
• Trees are 164 feet and tall
• Most diverse terrestrial Biome

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Seasons

• Winter Warm and Rainy
• Summer Warm and Rainy
• Fall Warm and Rainy
• Spring Warm and Rainy

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Soil Type

• Soil is very nutrient poor
• Topsoil only one to two inches deep
• Plants store their own nutrients
• Soil is infertile because it is 100 million years
  old and has taking a beating from the elements

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Species DiversityPlants
Bengal Bamboo
Jambu
Bougainvillea
Strangler Figs
Curare
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Species Diversity Animals
African Forest Elephant
Silvery Gibbon
Harpy Eagle
Orangutan
Toco Toucan
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Food Web
Sun
Jaguar
Sloth
Anteater
Macaw
Rain-forest Plants
Termite Ant
Scorpion
Red-eyed Tree Frog
Bacteria
Kinkajou
Beetle
Howler Monkey
Decomposing Leaves
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Adaptations

• Sloth's
• covered in greenish algae
• move very slow
• Trees
• Form buttresses to absorb nutrients
• Roots must be shallow to absorb nutrients
• Attacking
• Have shape teeth, claws, and horns
• Butterflies
• Non poisonous butterflies mimic poisonous
  butterflies

Leroy Jackson
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Human Influences

• Deforestation Humans needed space a wood
• Rainforest trees cleared for farming, grazing,
  mining, and living space
• Many species are lost everyday
• Example
• A single tree can have as many as 43 species of
  ants on it

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Medicine

• Most of the worlds medicine come from the
  rainforest plants
• 120 prescription drugs sold worldwide today are
  from rainforest plants
• Many of these plants are said to be the next cure
  for cancer

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Organizations/web site that help prevent
deforestation

• Rainforest Alliance
• Rainforest Action Network
• Red Jellyfish
• Donates money to replant trees
• Care2
• Informational web site to prevent species loss
  and deforestation
• The Rainforest Site
• Donates money and time to save rainforest

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Work Cited

• http//www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainfo
  rest/Edit560s6/www/where.html
• http//www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rainforest.htm
• http//www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/rainfore
  st/animals/Protection.shtml