Tropical Forest

By: Kelty OberAPESK

Common Names

• Often called rainforests• Divided into subdivisions– Evergreen rainforests

• No dry season

– Season rainforests• Short dry periods

– Semi-evergreen forests• Longer dry season

– Moist/dry deciduous forest• Length of dry season increases as rainfall decreases

Food Web

Where?

• Found around the equator• Mostly in South America, Africa, and Southern

Asia

• Example: the Amazon Rainforest– Biggest in the world– In South America

Where?

Climate

• Between 20-25° C (68-77° F)

• Temperatures do not vary much• A lot of precipitation evenly distributed

throughout the year• More than 200 cm of rainfall per year

Plants

• Most of the plants in tropical forests are trees– Many different species

• Vines– Can have as many as 2,500 species

• Ferns• Mosses

Animals

• Monkeys• Insects– Butterflies– Ants– Mosquitos

• Small mammals

Adaptations

• Plants– Leaf shapes and colors• Allow rain to fall off• Darker to take in more sunlight

• Animals– Life in trees

Human Impacts

• More than half of tropical forests in the world have already been destroyed

• It has been estimated that over half of the world’s plant and animal species live in these forests

Fun Facts

• Many spices come from tropical forests– Vanilla, pepper, allspice

• The many trees provide most of the oxygen we breathe

Bibliography• Sources

– Marshall, Charles. The Forest Biome. University of California Museum of Paleontology, 2006. Web. February 13, 2014. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/forests.php.

– G., Michael. Tropical Rainforest. Blue Planet Biomes, 2001. Web. February 13, 2014. http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rainforest.htm.

• Pictures– Slide 1: http://www.glogster.com/azeem9/tropical-rainforest-biome/g-

6ls6nv8sal3lf06n86afva0 – Slide 3 (Food Web): http://womenhijab.com/images/food-chain-web-tropical-forest-desert-

grland-jobspapa-com-951-x-602-67-kb-jpeg.html– Slide 5 (World Map): http://amazingbiomes.weebly.com/rainforests.html– Slide 5 (South America Map): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_rainforest – Slide 6:http://www.picstopin.com/1366/raining-wallpaper-photography-wallpapers-15024/

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– Slide 8 (Monkey): http://room42.wikispaces.com/Rainforest+Animal– Slide 10: http://celta-universe.blogspot.com/2011/10/rain-forests.html– Slide 11: http://www.rainforestproducts.info/category/all/