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Tropical Toe Sloth Travel Company

Tropical Toe Sloth Travel Company. Trip to the Tropical Rain Forest. Tropical Rain Forests of the World. Ideal Visit. Before or after rain season, depending on location Similar climate year-round. Activities. River cruises Canopy tours Parks and Wildlife Reserves Eco-lodges. Climate.

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Tropical Toe Sloth Travel Company

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  1. Tropical Toe Sloth Travel Company Trip to the Tropical Rain Forest

  2. Tropical Rain Forests of the World

  3. Ideal Visit • Before or after rain season, depending on location • Similar climate year-round

  4. Activities • River cruises • Canopy tours • Parks and Wildlife Reserves • Eco-lodges

  5. Climate • Rarely gets higher than 93 °F (34 °C) or drops below 68 °F (20 °C) • Humidity is between 77 – 88% • Soil is infertile • 250 - 450 cm of rainfall per year (8 - 14 feet)

  6. Precipitation/Year

  7. Temperature/Year

  8. Unique Features • Home of at least half of Earth’s plant and animal species • Provides 40% of oxygen on Earth but only covers 6% of Earth’s surface • A quarter of medicines comes from plants in tropical rain forests

  9. Adaptation to Biome • Plants • Bark to protect against humidity • Due to high rainfall, plants developed “drip tips” • Animals • Due to competition, Toucans adapted by developed a long bill that allows it to reach food on branches and cut the fruit

  10. Characteristics Plants Animals Birds’ large beaks cool them off A lot of animals that use echolocation are nocturnal to hunt EX: • Canopy is so big that not enough sunlight reaches ground to grow plants • Trees have vines tree to tree so animals can climb them • Plants have large leaves to capture sunlight • EX:

  11. Environmental Threat Deforestation • Tropical Rainforest trees are cut down for their lumber, which leads to loss of habitat for many animals • Visit the Tropical Rain Forest before the habitat is lost!

  12. Works Cited • www.mbgnet.net/sets/rforests/plants/ • www.cotf.edu/ete/modules • www.traveltips.usa.com/activites-amazon-rainforest-1168.html • www.blueplantbiomes.org • www.marietta.edu/~bio/biomes/troprain.htm • http://www.marietta.edu/~biol/biomes/troprain.htm • Keegan, Michelle, Lydia Period 7

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