Tropical rainforest

By: Jaci Strother

Climate

• An average of 50 to 260 inches (125 to 660 cm.) of rain fall.

• The temperature in a rain forest rarely gets higher than 93 °F (34 °C) or drops below 68 °F (20 °C) yearly.

Geographic location

• Near the equator.•

Interesting feature and/or facts

• Rainforests are forests that experience a high level of rainfall per year.

• may be millions of plant and insect species in rainforests that have yet to be discovered.

• Rainforests used to cover 14% of the Earth’s surface but now only 6%

• A wide variety of animals live in rainforests, including birds, snakes, insects, jaguars, cougars, chameleons, turtles, frogs, and many more.

• Tropical rainforests lie in the tropics (around 28 degrees north or south of the equator).

Food web• Banana->insects-> red eyed tree frogs-

>jaguar.• Coconut trees->insects->iguana->jaguar • Coconut trees->insects->vampire bats->

python

Adaptation

Challenges