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Tropical Rainforests

Tropical Rainforests. Erin McCarthy Marina Carcaba. Location. Rainfall. The yearly average rainfall in a tropical rainforest is from 50 to 260 inches. The temperature in a rainforest rarely gets higher than 93 °F (34 °C) or drops below 68 °F (20 °C).

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Tropical Rainforests

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  1. Tropical Rainforests Erin McCarthy Marina Carcaba

  2. Location

  3. Rainfall • The yearly average rainfall in a tropical rainforest is from 50 to 260 inches. • The temperature in a rainforest rarely gets higher than 93 °F (34 °C) or drops below 68 °F (20 °C). • The average humidity is between 77% and 88%.

  4. Butterflies Chameleon Gorilla Jaguar Sloth Macaw Toucan Anaconda Pit Viper Bearded Pig Tapir Capybara Chimpanzee Common Tree Shrew Flying Dragon Lizard Indian Cobra Orangutan Vine Snake Golden Lion Tamarin Monkey Poison Dart Frog Dragonflies Three-Toed Sloth Wooly Monkey Black Howler Monkey Red Howler Monkey Silver Back Gorilla Okapi Coral Snake Tree Frog Parrots Harpy Eagle Cougar Iguana Macaw Mountain Gorilla Bats Leopards Giant Anteaters Boa Constrictor Alligator Tiger Tropical Rainforest Animals

  5. Food Web

  6. Bengal Bamboo Bougainvillea Curare Coconut Tree Durian Jambu Kapok Tree Strangler Figs Tualang Bromeliads Orchids Mangroves Banyan Tree Coccoloba Talipot Palm Freycinetia Peacock Plant Philippine Fig Panama Hat-Plant Gnetum Fishbone Cactus Bauhinia Sacred Fig Screw Pine Ilang-Ilang Giant Bamboo Ferns Guava Passionflower Scarlet Bush Rosewood Lemon Balm Snakegourd Horsetail Chamomile Alfalfa Plants

  7. Facts • About half of all the world’s animal species live in tropical rainforests. • There are more than 50 million different kinds of insects in tropical rainforests. Almost 50 different species of ant were found on one tree in Peru. • A tropical rainforest has more kinds of trees than any other area in the world. • About 1/4 of all the medicines we use come from rainforest plants. • Nearly all nutrients present in the biome are contained in the plants, not the soil. • Rainforests now cover less than 6% of Earth's land surface.

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