Rainforest Images Powerpoint

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The Tropical Rainforest
What is the climate of the equatorial
region?
(or Tropical Rainforest)
Where is the TRF?
What is so special about the
plants in the rainforest?
The Tropical Rainforest has some very special plants that have adapted to
the hot and wet climate. These include:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Lianas
Emergents
Buttress Roots
Drip Tips
Branchless trunks
Little Undergrowth
Canopy
Fast Growing Trees
Carnivore plants
Lianas
Why do lianas
Climb?
Emergents
What do you
think an
Emergent is?
Buttress roots
Why do the trees
have buttress
roots?
Drip Tips
Why do the trees
want to get the water
off their
leaves?
Branchless
trunks
Why have few
branches?
Little undergrowth
Why is their
little
undergrowth?
Canopy
What is the
Canopy?
Carnivores plants
1.
Draw the diagram in the text books and
add the following labels to your diagram
2. Explain why the plants in the
TRF have these special things
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Lianas
Emergents
Buttress Roots
Drip Tips
Branchless trunks
Little Undergrowth
Canopy
Fast Growing Trees
Carnivore plants
What labels can you add?
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