What is a rainforest? Well a rainforest is a tropical forest that is usually very tall and has high annual rainfall.

Where is the rainforest? It is in South America and it is in Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Bolivia, Suriname, and French Guyana. The hemispheres are northwest and southwest. It is also 00-150south and 450-75o west. There are many different tribes and many different cultures in the Amazon rainforest. There are a lot of animals and there are many types of animals too in the rainforest.

Mostly all the rainfall is in the rainforest or it is really close to it and it is really heavy rain in the middle of the rainforest.

It is mostly tropical wet or it is tropical dry where the rainforest is located at and it’s a little humid subtropical too. The climate in the forest is very humid. The annual rainfall in the Amazon is 120 inches and the average temperature in it is 800 in the day and 700 in the night.

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The emergent layer, it is the highest part of the rainforest. It is about 200 ft off the forest floor and the truck is about 16 ft around. Eagles, monkeys, bats and butterflies all live in this part of the forest.

The canopy layer, it is the second highest layer of the rainforest. It forms a layer over the remaining two layers. It also has smooth, oval shaped leaves on it. Snakes, toucans, and tree frogs have good camouflage and that’s why they live in this part of the rainforest.

The understory layer, it is the second layer from the ground of the Amazon forest. Little sunshine gets to this layer and the plants can grow up to 12 feet tall. Jaguars, red-eye tree frogs, and leopards live in this layer.

The forest floor, it is the bottom of the rainforest. It is very dark in this layer and there is hardly any plants living in this layer. Giant ant eaters and some snakes live in this part of the rainforest.

My plant the Abrus Pecatoris is very deadly with poison. It is a producer because it gives us medicines. My animals were the Spider and the Squirrel monkey. They were both omnivores. They were both mostly herbivores more than carnivores. The Jaguar and the Hawk were not my animals they were predators of them. They were both carnivores because they both only ate meat. But the worm eats everything that is dead and that’s why it’s a decomposer.

Spider monkeys are omnivores. It is usually all black and some has flesh colored rings around there eyes with white chin whiskers. Its habitat is in the higher part of the canopy, found on the edge of the rainforest near Bolivia and Matto Grasso in Brazil.The predators of a spider monkey are mostly the Jaguar and other big tigers. They eat 90% fruit and seeds in their diet, along with small insects, small leaves and maybe bird eggs are their most common preys. Their adaptation is that their tail helps it better to climb through trees and to be like a spider with its tail. It has the longest tail for a monkey in the amazon rainforest.

Squirrel monkeys have a short grayish dense coat. The ears, throat, head, back and legs are yellow to grey-green and the other parts are yellow to white. Their habitat is in the northern part of South America. They live usually along rivers and

streams. Squirrel monkeys live in the middle canopy. The main predator of the monkey is hawks and big eagles. Some big cats like Leopards and Jaguars. They eat insects, spiders, eggs, baby birds, flowers, seeds, leaves and nuts. They use their tail to help swing back and forth from trees and when tired they will put it over there head.

The Abrus Pectoris is a very poison plant. Many tribes use it for jewelry such as necklaces and bracelets. There is no animal that likes to eat or use the plant for resources. The plant is a slender twine with alternately placed compound leaves. Each leaf has about 20 pairs of narrow, oblong leaflets, looking Like a delicate feather. Fruits are short, inflated pods, splitting open when mature to reveal the round, Hard and shiny seeds which are scarlet but black at the base. The plant is native to the tropics. Seeds when broken or chewed or when the external coat is removed are toxic. Seeds are extremely poisonous if cracked one, if swallowed, it can be fatal. This plant has not many predators and they are people. People use this plant for many medicines and some even use this plant for its beauty. They use it for necklaces and some time bracelets. It has photosynthesis because it makes up its on food by the soil.

The Yanomami are also called the Yanomamö, and are one of the largest indigenous tribes in the Amazon. There are approximately 30,000 Yanomami living in southern Venezuela. Although they were first contacted in 1929, their culture has remained relatively unchanged until recently due to their isolated locations on unavailable upland streams rather than living on the main rivers. The Yanomami are thought to have lived in the border area of Brazil and Venezuela for thousands of years. They live in communal villages formed from a large circular house called a shabono. Individual families have their own living space inside the roofed part of the shabono. The Yanomamis are completely dependent upon the resources of the Amazon Rainforest for their survival. They hunt, fish, and practice "slash and burn" agriculture, moving their village every few years after resources is depleted. Their main crops are plantains and cassava. There is no one in this tribe who has any type of fire arms, they all have bows to get there food. They can spend days to get good food or a couple of hours. They eat many different animals and plants but they use most plants for medicines.

Wild Viola may be annuals or perennials. Because Viola freely hybridize, however, it is often difficult to identify their species. The flower, variable in color, but not red, usually grows singly on a stalk and has five petals, four arranged in unlike pairs, the fifth with a spur (see). The leaves may grow on the same stalk as the flower (stemmed violets) or on separate stalks. Though the best-known Viola has heart-shaped leaves, the leaves of other species may have different shapes. They are used for a lot of tribes in the rainforest. They use it for medicines for their health. There are not many animals that eat this plant.

There are many different ways tribes move throughout the rainforest. They usually make canoes or little boats to travel through the Amazon River. Many people make roads through the forest with bulldozers and machines that cut down trees. Deforestation, this is when people take and cut down trees from the

forest. We are losing Earth's greatest biological treasures just as we are beginning to appreciate their true value. Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth's land surface; now they cover a mere 6% and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years.

Rainforests are being destroyed because the value of rainforest land is perceived as only the value of its timber by short-sighted governments, multi-national logging companies, and land owners. As the rainforest species disappear, so do many possible cures for life-threatening diseases. Currently, 121 prescription drugs sold worldwide come from plant-derived sources. While 25% of Western pharmaceuticals are derived from rainforest ingredients, less that 1% of these tropical trees and plants have been tested by scientists. Most rainforests are cleared by chainsaws, bulldozers and fires for its timber value and then are followed by farming and ranching operations. There were an estimated ten million Indians living in the Amazonian Rainforest five centuries ago. Today there are less than 200,000. With them have gone centuries of accumulated knowledge

of the medicinal value of rainforest species. As their homelands continue to be destroyed by deforestation, rainforest peoples are also disappearing.

They are a group of indigenous South Americans living in the northwestern Amazon, along the Vaupés River and the surrounding area. They are present in both Colombia and Brazil, although most live on the Colombian side of the border. They are usually described as being made up of many separate tribes, although the appellation is somewhat problematic due to the complex social and linguistic structure of the region. They live off the different resources throughout the rainforest and the different animals too. They kill with many spears or they kill with bows. They use most of the plants for medicines or for beauty. They usually take a while for hunting and killing animals for food. They are like any other tribes in the forest.

Many people are trying to conserve the Amazon rainforest and not have it be destroyed. You need to come out and help the environment and to help with the ecotourism. We need to come and help to save many tribes culture and traditions for they can go on forever and ever. You need you to come out there to help because if we don’t, we will lose a lot of plants and many organisms. Without all those plants for medicines and animals for food it will be hard to live. Because they are taking away a lot of trees and without trees, no oxygen, and no oxygen we can’t breathe and that will be the end. So what will happen if we don’t take care of the forest and take care of our planet, Earth?

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