More than 20 percent of the world oxygen is produced in the Amazon Rainforest.
Rainforest Facts: The reason it is called a "rain" forest is because of the high amount of rainfall it gets per year. Rainforests have an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches (254 centimeters) and often much more.
Why are Rainforests important to us?
They are very important as the plants of the rainforest generate much of the Earth’s oxygen
Rainforests cover only 6 %of the Earth's surface but yet they contain MORE THAN 1/2 of the world's plant and animal species!
Rainforests are found on every continent across the Earth, except Antarctica.
Tropical rainforests are found close to the equator where temperatures and rainfall are very high all year round. The major areas of tropical rainforests are in South East Asia, West Africa and South and Central America. The best known rain forests are found in tropical regions between the Tropics of cancer and Capricorn.
Temperate rainforests are found along coasts in the temperate zone.
The largest temperate rainforests are found on North America's Pacific Coast and stretch from Northern California up into Canada. Temperate rainforests have one long wet winter/spring season, and a dry foggy summer.
As many as 30 million species of plants and animals live in tropical rainforests.
A typical four square mile patch of rainforest contains as many as 1,500 flowering plants, 750 species of trees, 400 species of birds and 150 species of butterflies.
Emergent Layer - very sunny because it is the very top. Only the tallest trees reach this level.
Who lives here? birds, butterflies and small monkeys live with bats, snakes and bugs.
Canopy Layer - much of the rain is stopped by the thick foliage. Most trees in the forest grow to this height. There are plants that grow in the canopy layer. Their roots don't reach the ground. These are called air plants.
Understory Layer - many vines, dense vegetation, not much light.
Forest Floor - dark, damp, full of many dead leaves, twigs and dead plants. The forest floor is dark due to the trees above stopping the sunlight from entering the forest. It is estimated that only 2% of the sunlight actually reaches the floor.
The trees of a tropical rainforest are so densely packed that rain falling on the canopy can take as long as 10 minutes to reach the ground.
Many of the things we have in our homes comes from the rainforest.
These include:
- medicine
- chocolate - Chocolate is made from cocoa. Cocoa pods grow on trees in rainforests.
- sugar
- spices - includes ginger, allspice, pepper, cinnamon, coconut, vanilla, turmeric and paprika.
- rubber
- pineapples
- bamboo
An area of a rainforest the size of a football field is being destroyed each second.
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