Rain Forest
By: Cari & Taylor
Natural Resources
Unique Characteristics of Tropical Rainforest
- Tempature Range: 70-80° F.
- Anual Precipitation: 80- 400 in. (Can get up to 2 inches in 1 hour!)
- Latitude Range: 23.5° N. and 23.5°S.
- Seasons: Spring and Summer year round
http://rde.nsw.edu.au/rm/stage2_Modules/zoo/tropical_rainforest.htm
Orchids
Adaptations: They have two stems, both with large surface area for quick absorbsion of water, and one stores water for during dry days it has stored water.
http://www.mongabay.com/04_orchids_rainforest.htm
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:White_Orchids.JPG
Fungi
http://travel.mongabay.com/colombia/images/co03-9710.html
http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/biomes/rainforest.html
Tropical Rainforest Trees
http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/biomes/rainforest.html
http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/plants/buttress.html
Monkeys
Omnivore-
This monkey is an omnivore. Omnivores get their energy by consuming both plants and animals. Monkeys in the Tropical Rainforest don't feed on huge animals but they do eat some. To survive the monkey had to adapt, which he did by growing long arms and being able to swing from tree to tree. This helps becasue there are lots of trees in the Raifnorest.
http://fuegomundo.com/blog/rainforest-new-world-monkey-from-central-america-featured-at-fuegomundo
Cougar
Carnivore-
Cougars are carnivores. Carnivores are animals that consume energy by eating only other animals. The cougar adapted to its invoroment by becoming very fast. This helps on the Tropical Rainforest because if it eats animals it has to be fast to catch them.
Parrot
Herbivore-
Parrots are herbivores. Herbivores are animals that cunsume energy by eating only plants. They adapt to the Tropical Rainforest enviroment by being able to fly pretty fast. This helps them excape preditors.
http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/biomes/rainforest.html
http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=what-kind-parrot-are-you_2
Where you can find Rainforests
Japan
New Zeland
Threats/ Dangers
- The main threats for the Tropical Rainforest are people. They cut down trees all the time and every minute 30 acres of trees are cut down. We can stop this by replanting the trees we cut down so we aren't completely ruining the habitat.
- The other threat to the rainforest is drouts. The rainforest plants and animals need water and cannot suvive with out it. We can fix this by trying to use less water that is near the Rainforests.
http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/biomes/rainforest.html
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/threats-to-the-rainforest.html
Facts about the Tropical Rainforest
- Every second the length of a football feild in trees is being cut down by humans.
- 1 out of every 4 mdicanes are made mostly out of plants fromthe rainforests.
- Giant bamboo plants that live here grow up to 9 in. a day!
http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/biomes/rainforest.html
http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/facts.html