TROPICAL RAINFORESTBy: Will Brooks and Daniel

Schlenker

Characteristics of Tropical Rain forest

In an average year in a tropical rain forest, the climate is very humid because of all the rainfall, which amounts to about 250 cm per year. The rain forest has lots of rain because it is very hot and wet. This climate is found near the equator. Plants that thrive here must find a way to get sunlight because most of the sun’s energy is absorbed by the canopy. Tropical rainforests are home to more animals and plants then any biome on the planet. Most of the animals it is home to have not been discovered yet.

Dominant Plants

Spineless Indian Bamboo, Calcutta Cane Bambusa tulda

Dominant Plants

Coconut tree Cocos nucifera

Dominant Plants

Mangrove Forests

Dominant Plants

Fig Tree

Dominant Plants

Pitcher Plant Nepenthes macfarlanei

Dominant Plants

Giant Granadilla Passiflora quadrangularis

Dominant Animals

Sumatran Orangutan

Dominant Animals

Bird eating spider

Dominant Animals

Rhinoceros hornbill

Dominant Animals

Amazon River Dolphin

Dominant Animals

Count Raggi

Dominant Animals

Mountain Gorilla

Dominant Animals

Green poison frog

Dominant Animals

Piranha

Dominant Animals

arapaimas

Dominant Animals

Ants

Adaptations in the Rain Forest

One adaption that is unique to the rainforest is that the pitcher plant can hold water to trap insects in when they go into the plants pitcher to drink. The insects can’t get back out once they fall in.

Map of Rain forests

Bibliography

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/arapaima.html

Google images- http://images.google.com/images?

Biomes of the World Tropical Forests- Allaby, Michael, Published 1999 by Grolier Education in Danbury, CT 06816