Temperate Tropical

• Lie North of the Tropic of Cancer• And South of the Tropic of

Capricorn

• Lie along the equator

Tropical

•Warm & wet year round

•Avg. temp. 25-27 degrees C.

•Annual Rainfall 2,000-4,000 mm per yearTemperate

• Seasons- dry summer, wet winter

• Avg. temp. not extreme

• Annual Rainfall avg. 650-3,000 mm per year

• With Canopy Cranes

• Title Slide rainforest picture: http://www.threatenedspecies.environment.nsw.gov.au/tsprofile/images/

CTRFNewEngland.jpg Eden Communications (2003). Sound file. Accessed on 5/26/06 at

http://christiananswers.net/kids/sounds.html• Slide 1

Temperate Forest Picture Accessed on 5/26/06 at http://www.guidesign.com/olympic/rf1.jpg Tropical Rainforest picture Accessed on 5/26/06 at

http://www.msu.edu/user/dru/images/panama/highlands/forest_above.jpg• Slide 2

Wheeling Jesuit University/NASA-supported Classroom of the Future. Rainforest Map. http://www.cotf.edu/ete/images/modules/k4/biomes/Boverview2P3.gif

• Slide 3 Map Image Accessed on 5/26/06 at http://www.tolland.k12.ct.us/ths/science/powell/tropical

%20rainforest_files/image009.jpg

• Slide 4 Molles, M.(2002). Ecology Concepts and Applications. [Images] McGraw-Hill Higher Education:

NewYork..pg. 35.

• Slide 5 Viau, E. (1999). [Tropical Food Web Image] Accessed on 5/26/06 at

http://curriculum.calstatela.edu/courses/builders/lessons/less/biomes/rainforest/tropi_rain/rainweb.html

Viau, E. (1999). [Temperate Food Web Image] Accessed on 5/26/06 at http://curriculum.calstatela.edu/courses/builders/lessons/less/biomes/rainforest/temp_rain/tempweb.html

• Slide 6

University of Washington. (2005) [Crane images] Accessed on 5/26/06 at http://depts.washington.edu/wrccrf/gallery/CraneView1.jpg